viability of Roxio Easy CD Creator version 5

[wpshooter]

I have a client that is having me reinstall the XP O/S from scratch on his old computer which I have applied all of the Microsoft service packages to.

The version 5 of Roxio is what came with this computer when it was originally purchased.

I do have the original version 5 CD.

My question is, is this OLD version of Roxio going to work reliabily on a version of XP that has been updated with all of the M/S patches including IE8 and all these many years that the version 5 of Roxio was originally written and offered with this machine ?

Thanks.

 

[bruceb]

Versions 4 & 5 had many issues with XP ... V6 & later is stable with XP .. but Nero 6.6 is a better program.
And there are other programs, some free, that are easy to use. Such as IMGBURN (free) or UltraISO (pay)
POWERISO (pay) .. personally I think the latest releases from Roxio and Nero are very bloated.

 

[corkyg]

Roxio XP was very good with version 9. Version 10 is good with XP. Both work with Win 7. Both Roxio and Nero are highly bloated.

 

[C1]

You should be able to upgrade the Roxio ECDC to version 5.3.5 & it should do just fine. I still use portions of ECDC such as the erasing & formatting utilities. Unless this person has some special need that has been added from their original hardware purchase, then I wouldnt try to upgrade anything. NERO 6 with the latest upgrades is just absolutely great! ROXIO is a bit more intuitive to use however & might thus be preferred.

 

[tcsenter]

Register or use his Roxio account (if he has one) to obtain the latest patches/updates. Should be fine.

 

[wpshooter]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Register or use his Roxio account (if he has one) to obtain the latest patches/updates. Should be fine.

It is my understanding from other forums that if he going to utilize IE version 8 then the Roxio version 5 will NOT work even if it is updated to the latest patches that are available for VERSION 5, is that not correct ?

Thanks.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: wpshooter
It is my understanding from other forums that if he going to utilize IE version 8 then the Roxio version 5 will NOT work even if it is updated to the latest patches that are available for VERSION 5, is that not correct ?

I have no knowledge of an incompatibility with IE8.