Hello All -

So I tried to install a dual layer DVD burner here and failed.
:-\ 

It would've been great if it had worked but my 'fallback' to a
52x35x52 CDRW for $30 new (no mail in rebates) is very nice. It
burns a full 650mb CDR in 4 1/2 minutes compared to my previous
times of 20-22 minutes. Since compressed backup images of my C:
drive require 3 CDR disks here I'm not dreading doing backups
anymore. The buffer underrun protection and 2mb buffer in the
new CDRW should eliminate coasters under normal use and I am
more confident my backup CDRs will be readable when/if I ever
need them. :-) 

One other thing worth mentioning - NERO installation. 

I had an HP CDRW burner here which means it had HPs RecordNow
and DLA installed. The ".msi" files to uninstall RecordNow and
DLA were missing here. Not sure if they were _ever_ there but
NERO refused to install it's InCD software until I removed DLA
and I had/have no automated uninstall. 

I found a webpage with a log file of all the changes DLA had
made to the registry on another person's W2K setup and I
manually edited them out or back to where they were prior to
the DLA install. Over 300 locations and it made me a bit
nervous to be doing this major surgery to the registry. After
finishing I ran Microsoft's RegClean and it _did_ find errors
and claimed to have fixed them. 

I rebooted the machine and although NERO _seemed_ to install
InCD I found that InCD was not working. The previous partial
install had messed things up. I went to the NERO website and
found two utility programs. One to cleanup after a partial
install of InCD (this must happen often) and another to cleanup
the registry after an uninstall of _any_ NERO software. I
download both, executed both, and after rebooting tried to
install InCD again. This time it worked. :-) 

It seems that as an added bonus the computer is multitasking
with a bit more vigor than before. I think the HP DLA was
'overkill' with it's 300 or so registry entries and was slowing
my machine even when it wasn't being used? Maybe it was all the
registry 'cleaning'? 

At least I've been somewhat compensated for my 'efforts' which
means the time wasn't wasted after all. :-) 

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