To uninstall Roxio's Easy CD Creator, click here and follow Roxio's procedure "How to uninstall Easy CD Creator 3x / 4x from Windows XP", as documented by Roxio Support Knowledgebase (A.S.K.) article #020111-000000. To search manually for this subject, or any other Roxio Support Knowledgebase articles go to: http://ask.roxio.com. Note: There will be an optional step in Roxio's documentation to fully clean Roxio's Easy CD Creator from your registry.

Roxio posts detailed instructions for manually uninstalling Roxio Easy CD Creator 4.x and 5.x. This Roxio procedure covers a complete uninstall, including leftover files and registry entries. The instructions for manually installing Roxio Easy CD Creator 4.x and 5.x contain required and optional steps. Caution: The optional steps in the procedure involve editing your System Registry. This is for experienced users.

Note that doing any of the below will erase all data in your hard disk! You can boot from a Windows 9x boot disk, reformat the XP partition and install a previous version of Windows. If XP is installed using NTFS file system, you'll first have to use FDISK to delete the partition, type FDISK at the prompt. Once you are at the menu, select "Delete Non-dos Partition.

You can access Easy CD Creator by either inserting a Writable CD or by clicking on the Project Selector icon. A window will pop up with the words Select a Project on the top. For a Data CD click on the blue button which says make a data CD. At this point you will be given 3 options, click on dataCD project and Easy CD Creator will open. Select the files that you wish to burn to the CD in the upper window and click the add button which is located between the upper and lower windows.

If you have a CD-RW drive on your computer, Windows XP has an integrated CD burning feature that allows you to burn data files onto recordable CDs. For Wellesley College-owned computers, there is a better CD-burning program called Roxio Easy CD-Creator that you may use. There are 2 types of recordable CDs: CD-R or CD-RW. CD-RWs are CDs that are re-writable, meaning that you may erase the CD at any time and re-use the CD to burn more files onto it.

If we list the program as Windows XP compatible, that means that we have tested it on our own computers and found that it worked on Windows XP. We test all of our software on Windows XP and earlier Windows systems, even if the original CD-ROM does not list them. If it passes our test, the compatible systems are then listed on the software page in our catalog.

You might want to remove the Microsoft JVM, which Microsoft no longer supports, in favor of the more recent Sun Microsystems JVM. To remove the Microsoft JVM, perform the following steps: The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AdvancedOptions\JAVA_VM registry subkey (to remove the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) options When Internet Explorer 7 is installed on Windows XP, ctfmon.exe runs in the background without purpose, and when the Run entry for ctfmon.

Back to ToC When asked to burn an image (menu 'File', item 'Create CD from Disk image', Easy CD Creator (ECDC) defaults to CIF files (a proprietary format based on the Riff standard). You have to select "*.iso" files (in some versions, you'll have so select "*.*") to select another kind of image file. The programs checks two points: the extension, which must be ISO, and the presence of the string "CD001" in the 16th sector. It will crash if one of those checks fails.

You can click on the "Programs -> Easy DVD CD Burner -> Uninstall Easy DVD CD Burner" shortcut from the Start menu or you can uninstall the program by going to "Add/Remove Programs" in Control Panel and selecting "Easy DVD/CD Burner" from the program list.

You can click on the "Programs -> Easy Music CD Burner -> Uninstall Easy Music CD Burner" shortcut from the Start menu or you can uninstall the program by going to "Add/Remove Programs" in Control Panel and selecting "Easy Music CD Burner" from the program list.

Click Microsoft TCP/IP version 6 (for Windows XP with SP2 or later or Windows Server 2003) or Microsoft IPv6 Developer Edition (for Windows XP with SP1), and then click Uninstall. When prompted to confirm the removal of the Microsoft IPv6 Developer Edition or Microsoft TCP/IP version 6 protocol, click OK. Alternately, from the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 desktop, click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.

There are several methods to remove Windows Messenger from Windows XP, since you can't uninstall from the Software > Add/Remove Programs menu. Last but not least you can apply this patch, found at The Register and made by an anonymous msn hater :)

Burning a CD with Windows XP is a easy as one two three. If all you want to do is copy a few files from your computer to a CD, follow the instructions in the following document - How to burn a CD.

A pop up will appear in the lower right hand corner saying "You have files waiting to be written to CD, to see the files now, click this balloon." Click it. A window will pop up showing you the files you selected, on the left hand side you will see a heading "CD Writing Tasks" and right below that, click on "Write these files to CD." A wizard will appear, insert your blank CD in your CD Writer drive, and click "Next" through the wizard.

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Each time Windows XP starts you are presented with a dialogue box that says "Windows Has Recovered From A Serious Error". This problem occurs because after a Minidump (or memory dump) file is written, the paging file continues to have a flag set that indicates that a memory dump file needs to be written. See the KB Article Q317277. After installing SP1 when you try and switch identities in Outlook Express it reloads the default identity.

Select File, CD Layout Properties then click on Mode-1 CD-ROM and Save As Default button then press OK. Type a file name for the new CD image then drop down the save as type combo box and select ISO Image Files(*.iso) and press save.

Use the Unlocker utility. This file will unlock all file handles on the file/folder and even offer to delete it for you before the program locks it again!

Microsoft is aiming to combine the features of Windows Me for the consumer, and reliability of Windows 2000 for businesses and power users into one new operating system. This operating system in its' different flavors will have new features for gaming, multimedia applications, audio, etc. in addition to features for networking, development, etc. for businesses and power users.