WinXP CD Burning Irritation

[Netopia]

Hey Everyone,

Here's the scenario. I've been using Quicken for about a million years and back it up to a CD-RW (in addition to another hard drive backup). Recently I upgraded the machine that I pay my bills on to XP. The other night I went to back up from within Quicken for the first time and two things happened:

1) After a few moments I got a balloon pop-up in the tray saying that my files were ready to be burned to disk
2) No files ever appeared on the CD-RW

I finally just got out of Quicken and manually dragged the files from the Quicken directory over to the CD-RW and all was fine.

Next time I booted the computer I get that same balloon popup about files being ready to burn! Arghhghgh...

What I'm 'guessing' is happening is that XP's own internal CD burning software isn't recognizing that INCD has already mounted the drive for packet writing and thinks it's going to burn the disk.

So... how the heck do you just turn off the XP CD burning software?

Joe

 

[Continuity27]

Go to "Run...". Type in gpedit.msc

In the group policy box that appears, go to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Explorer. Within that group, you'll see many options on the right, one says "Remove CD Burning Features", Enable it.

 

[stars]

If using XP Home disable the IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service and see if that fixes it.

 

[Netopia]

It's XP Pro....

And THANK YOU both for such quick responses! I'll try it out when I get home!

Joe

 

[TechnoPro]

Right-click on the CD-RW drive in My Computer and select Properties. Under the Recording tab, clear the check box next to "Enable CD recording on this drive." Click OK.