Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

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.

I am a systems analyst with 20 years of experience, I would never have released a product as full of bugs as this one. The concept is fantastic! However, the product will not preform as advertised. When trying to put together a 15 minute slide presentation with audio sound you will experience not being able to adjust the sound to the photos in a cohesive manner. The music (sound) will always be too long or two short. While working on the project you will experience the screen going blank while the music continues to play, this makes it 100% labor intensive to try to finish a project because you will spend all of your time starting over. When using random transitions you will never know how long each one will take. The majority of the time the transition is 2 seconds, however sometimes it is longer. Once-in-a-while the random transitions will disappear half way through the project. Forget about technical support. I have made several phone calls and when trying what the technician suggests I find that it doesnt work. For example, they suggested using the remote control(part of the program) to view the project. They indicated that I would be able to fast forward and that the photos and music would stay together making it easier to hear and see what song was playing with what picture without going through the entire slide show again. I will never know because there isnt any way to stop the fast forward action. Once you start the fast forward it goes all the way to the end. Oh, by the way, did I mention that Roxio wants to charge you [money amount] for a technical service call. Its pretty bad when you pay [money amount]for a product that barely works and then have to pay to find out that the technical support isnt helpful. When I asked the technical service person (Liz - in Toronto)if any of the things she was telling me were in the user manual she replied I dont know, Ive never read it. Other little annoyances like the up and down slide on the side tab freezes and you can only move up, which prevents you from seeing anything at the end of your project. Eventually it comes back but in the meanwhile its a pain. Several people really liked the one short dvd I was able to create and wanted to know about the product. When I told them it took me a week to make a 15 minute dvd they quickly changed their mind and told me to let them know when the prodcut is perfected. Too bad for Roxio - they had a good idea that could have sold very well.

Seamless, fantastic, and stable. A solid addition to the computer. A bit more professional then the last version, Version 6 is flawless with Windows XP (SP1 needs to be installed) The drag feature is not only new but excellent. I would recommend this to any burner out there. make sure you read the requirements, and go to town!

. I am a security tech that uses various software application during my daily work, that requires backups and storage for safekeeping. I have never seen a software package that requires such a short learning curve to operate ! It litterally took me 3 minutes to install it and another few minutes to start using the CD burning and the video editing features. The graphic interface is intuitive, and the ease of use makes it the BEST EVER ! One of my coleagues in the engineering dept. was a long time Nero user. As of last week he converted to Roxios easy CD creator, wondering what took him so long to wake up and smell the coffee... Thank you Roxio for this wonderful application that will make my life so much easier ! Keep up the good job ! HK

Well, it might seem so at first, but it actually turns out to be a great deal. Offer a set of tools from CD to DVD burning and Photo-Editing. This update aims to provide users with a all in one solution that continues its tradition of ease of use. Because DVD-Burners are not white spread or people might not be burning home movies, the most used application or component must Easy CD Creator Classic, which still remains true to it self with minor improvements to user interface. If you do want expand your capabilities and to new areas such a DVD Burning which I think is great medium for easily back up your data. Burning movies is very easy, the 123 step approach the program takes make this a great asset and fun project for the family. The Photo-Editing solution is not inviting and not recommended, as I already use Photoshop Elements which is awesome enough to do what I want. But for simple jobs Easy CDs Photo-Editor will come true for many users especially as a bargain. Users who might want save a few dollars can look to the All in One solution,Nero 6 Ultra Edition, that has almost everything except the Kitchen sink. Overall, if you want the simplicity with extra tools that grow and expand into to other areas with you, Easy CD & DVD Creator, is certainly an easy choice.

I have used roxios toast program in my college classes. This product is pitiful in compairson. I burned my first CD-R on it and took it to a friends house to view the stuff on it. Upon putting it into the CD drive it autoinstalled somehting called the roxio viewer on the system. This viewer is frequentely the cause of problems (as I subsequentely found out). It rewrote something in the BIOS and is causing problems with the whole system. In addition it rewrote part of the CD-Driver...adn now it will not work at all. The only possible fix is to re-install teh drivers from my operation system disk....which is impossible with out a working CD Drive. And this may not even fix the problem...

Received Easy CD&DVD Creator6 Platinum for Christmas because I had really liked version 4. Have not been able to get a complete install on it to date, and the parts that did install didnt function right. Went to Roxios support site & found that many purchasers had same[and many other]problems. Some even had to restore their PC. Sent Emails to their tech support and received one answer so far. It took 11 DAYS for them to answer, and it was just a bunch of babble,nothing to do with the problem. I have uninstalled&deleted everything I can find related to it on my PC, and thrown the blasted thing away. I will NEVER buy another ROXIO product again.

Worked great for me.

This history of this product has been one frought with driver problems and compatibility problems. My first CD burner was a 4x and it came with Adaptec ECD Creator way back in the day. That version was impossible to get working on a Windows 98 machine. I wont even begin to try to describe the hell of trying to get this program to work (I should say these programs since its not even one program but rather a compilation of bad programs from various 3rd party sources that Roxio bundles up with their own poor product) on a machine running Windows 2000 and a Plextor burner. Every iteration of this software is wracked with problems. Every time a new version comes out there are scores of bad reviews with people who cannot get the software to work. Sure, for every piece of software there are always a FEW people who write negative reviews because they dont realize their problem is with their existing setup, not the software they are installing. But it is no coincidence that for each new version there are scores of reviewers with problems they cannot seem to resolve. How sad is it when you can burn your MP3s to CD using Windows Media Player(!) with greater reliability and ease then with a program that you actually have to pay extra for? Windows XP has been around for plenty long enough. The drivers for XP and 2000 should be just about the same. I had lots of problems with Win2K running things like ATI high-performance video card, creative soundblaster platinum, and ECD Creator. I understood the problems because Win 2000 was not yet meant to be a consumer product and none of these companies payed serious attention to getting flawless drivers out for it. But now it has been YEARS since Microsoft abandoned the DOS-based OSs in favor of NT based WinXP. ATI has finally gotten their XP drivers up to par. Creative has done the same. Roxio is so far behind the pack, and keeps putting out this sub-standard suite of seldom-functional garbage. I recommend people switch to Nero and do not buy this. Maybe that will finally give Roxio a reason to put out a product that works RELIABLY for once.

I had EasyCD Cremator basic that came with a Micro-Advantage DVD Burner. I was unable to burn anything, as with a previous review the drive would alternate between recognizing the media and not, saying it was unreadable to being able to record once and then having it not be readable/writable. I made a total of 7 coasters (dvd recordables) and several Cd-rs. It would occasionaly work with my previoulsy installed CD burner. Anyway I took the drive back thinking it was bad. I bought a new Pioneer drive, same problem. I uninstalled the Cremator installed Nero 6 Ultra, everything works perfectly, both burners in my system. Dont the hardware manufacurers test their drives with the software before packaging it. EasyCD Cremator is totaly useless and is not even worth getting it for free when you buy a burner. Do yourself a favor, dont bother installing it, throw it away and get Nero or one of the Freeware/Shareware burning software (see DVDRHELP.COM). Oh, the drag to disk worked occasionally with the CD burner. I guess that is worth about 1 star.