Crashed Vista for the first time :(

[Phat Momma Hoe]

All I wanted to do was to burn 2 small folders of photos to disk. So I just used the writable windows explorer, popped a disk in and dragged them over like I've done a hundred times on XP.

Sits there for 5 minutes thinking, then it tells me explorer.exe is not responding. So I tell it to shut the application down at which point it sits there thinking about it till I keep my finger on the power button.

Had been really happy with Vista, but a little deflated now as its fallen over doing such a simple task

 

[Phat Momma Hoe]

Bah, and again.

I'm starting to wonder if this isnt something to do with 'Roxio' that shipped with my Dell XPS as even after patching when it asks for a disk to be insterted and you click 'ok', it carrys on asking for a disk

How I miss the simple things

 

[NathanE]

Integrating CD burning into Explorer was a bad idea IMO. Should always be a seperate application. With CD burning, just about anything can go wrong and it's hard to account for all possibilities.

 

[stoofa]

What version of the Roxio software is it?
As far as I'm aware on Version 9 (the very latest) is guaranteed Vista compatible.
I did have Easy Media 8 but upgraded as soon as I got Vista.

 

[bledd]

Integrating CD burning into Explorer was a bad idea IMO. Should always be a seperate application. With CD burning, just about anything can go wrong and it's hard to account for all possibilities.

yup

it just adds more potential problems that mess with explorer.exe, like if a virus + spyware scanner is accessing the files, explorer goes to "not respoonding" for a while until it's complete

explorer should have some sort of AV mouse cursor plugin, so when the AV software is doing something with the files / folders you're accessing, it should change to the AV cursor, like a nod32 icon or symantec shield etc etc