Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

Having used version 5 Platinum, I was filled with joy to see the release of version 6. I probably should have saved my enthusiasm. Although I havent experienced any of the problems that Ive read about here as far as Windows XP goes, it runs flawlessly on my XP system and Im using it on a laptop. My issues are simpler. I just dont care for the way it works. Photosuite is worthless, Audio Central is ok, but you cant apply any effects (and there are several)such as the equalizer or any of the others unless you create playlists. If you want to listen to a few songs from your library, you cant apply the EQ without first creating a playlist. DUMB!!!! I still havent found an audio application that I like better than Musicmatch. I could go on, but if you dont have a real need to burn DVDs and you have version 5, stay there. I havent decided whether or not Im keeping this. Fortunately I bought it at Costco, so I have their liberal return policy on my side.

It does not work with newer computers and newer windows. Would cost more to send it back than I paid for it.Its worthless.

It always smiled at me the it called me stupid I warn you never ever get this I hope you wonder stand

Why, oh why didnt I read these reviews before throwing my money away on this system destroyer? Its like HIV. It screws up your system and you cant get rid of it. I wish we had the option of awarding zero stars! I had the previous edition of Easy CD Creator which worked with Windows 98. When I upgraded to Windows XP, I tried to re-install Easy CD and not only did it NOT install, telling me that I had to upgrade, it did something to my operating system so that even the built in Windows XP CD burning software no longer worked. Ive since gone through every fix I can find, including one from the Microsoft website (which is also found on the Roxio website) which involves making changes and deletions on your registry. At least it quit giving me the error messages about having to disable loaded drivers because they will make your system unstable. But it still would not burn or format CDs, even though the drive still works ok to read disks or load programs. Finally, in desperation, I bought the new Easy CD & DVD Creator 6, hoping that their new version would install itself properly and would allow me to burn CDs. I figured that they were aware of this problem and would have built in corrections to the new version. In other words, They broke it, maybe their new version would fix it! No such luck. A bunch of bucks later, and I still cant burn CDs. I spent 45 minutes downloading all of the upgrades to this program from Roxio, but when I reboot to finalize the installation, Windows refuses to load,and I have to allow it to revert to the last known good configuration. Im trying to install a different brand of CD software, but it doesnt work either, probably thanks to the Roxio infection. It looks like I may end up having to re-install XP, and go through all of the upgrades again. The only good news is that I found my receipt, and the store where I purchased it gave me a full refund.

Useful, but your OS should have everything that you need these days.

I have many other software products that let me work with music creation and collection, so the main reason I bought Easy CD & DVD Creator was for its DVD tools. I have many VHS tapes which are family movie compilations, some dating back to Super 8 days. I was very eager to put these all on DVD for my family. The series of problems I had with this process was simply amazing. The software didnt have fast forward or rewind buttons. Importing often failed even though the movie or sound files were perfectly usable by every other software package on my system. The software crashed numerous times. I tried to move the project onto another system to see if it would be any better, and the move process required me to start again from scratch. I finally got my DVD put together the way I wanted it and started to write. It crashed. I tried to simply write an image to disk. It crashed. The Roxio message boards are full of complaints from people with the same problem. I sent an email to their tech support. No answer. If you call in you pay for a toll call - plus pay $35 on top of that in order for them to help you figure out why their software is crashing. This software should never have been released in the buggy state it is in. It is incredible how much money I have spent for software that has wasted days of my time and simply does not work.

I got Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 bundled with a DVD+/-RW drive. Needless to say, I was eager to get burning. Ive used Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 for 1.5 years and have been very happy. But, thats neither here nor there. Ill cut to the chase. After installing, I found that all of my hard drives and partitions had been assigned new drive letters, seemingly at random. Furthermore, in Disk Management, most partitions didnt show a letter and those that did show a letter, appeared twice in Windows Explorer. Windows was notifying me that System Volume Information racking.log was corrupt and that I needed to run chkdsk. To make matters worse, Windows no longer identified my system boot drive with the (System) designation, meaning I could delete the partition if I wanted! Uninstalling did not resolve this, so I backed up all my data to an external disk. I then performed a fresh install of Windows XP. I then installed Service Pack 1 and all critical updates. I also installed DirectX 9.0b and Windows Media Player 9. After that, I installed Office XP, followed by Easy CD & DVD Creator 6. I rebooted, and found the exact same problem. Clearly there is some serious problem with this software. Im going back to version 5. For kicks, since I knew Id need to reinstall XP again, I tried to delete the system partition. It let me. A bug this serious shouldve been caught before beta testing.

Crashed a lot and isnt compatible with newer hardware or operating systems. I ended up buying Nero and giving this away.

Been using Roxio for years, but found Corel Movie Factory 7 easier.

I never had any problems with version 5, and havent had any with version 6 yet. Its a well-rounded and easy-to-use product, although I didnt install Photosuite as I already have the much more comprehensive Photoshop Elements 2.0 for that. The only really annoying aspect of this software is the fact that it forces you to register if you want to update the product. I usually register software anyway, but I do NOT like being forced to do so. Making it even worse, I had already registered with version 5, but there is no way to log in during the registration process. However, my logon ID from the prior registration is still active, and this registration would not let me re-register with that logon ID. In other words, it would force me to make up a second logon ID--how stupid are the programmers at Roxio? I decided to make up everything on the registration form, which worked fine and allowed me to download the product updates. Interestingly, the registration process does not allow you to have a logon ID with the characters roxi in it... Conclusion: I recommend this product, maybe even highly, although it may not be a necessary upgrade for many current users of version 5 Platinum. But I also highly recommend that you make up EVERYTHING on your registration process, even if like me you normally dont have a problem registering software.