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1. 

   wcloud
   Member

   After reading comments, I am in my normal state of confusion.

   I installed the two previous Starburns. What do I need to uninstall before installing v10?

   HOW (XPsp2)?

   Posted 16 years ago #
2. 

   copmom
   Member

   wcloud.. I uninstalled my previous version. Go to start/control panel/add-remove programs to uninstall. AND upon installing this version, don't forget to UNcheck the box that wants to make their site your home page!

   Posted 16 years ago #
3. 

   Jul
   Member

   But 'seems' that quite a few ppl have problem installing this v.10, and kind of lost their v.9 when this v.10 fail to activate? I kind of worry...

   Posted 16 years ago #
4. 

   wcloud
   Member

   and what about the dll that some say has to be removed?

   Posted 16 years ago #
5. 

   haalam
   Member

   I just posted this question to their forum, hopefully an answer will arrive before too long.

   Posted 16 years ago #
6. 

   copmom
   Member

   I didn't have anything like that happen! I just removed the first program and installed this one and it's fine.

   Posted 16 years ago #
7. 

   Jul
   Member

   Thanks for telling copmom, seems to work out for me too. :) Win XP HOme

   Posted 16 years ago #
8. 

   copmom
   Member

   WinXP SP2 home here too!

   Posted 16 years ago #
9. 

   AxCut
   Member

   Thanks copmom, I am going to do like you. I wasn't going to touch this because of the comments, but seeing that it worked for people, I am going to try to be one of them too.
   I'm XP sp2 as well

   Ax

   Just finished, worked like a charm. THANK YOU!

   Posted 16 years ago #
10. 

    JoanRC
    Member

    I did the same thing copmom did on a Vista machine and the programme runs. However, I have not checked out the virtual driver conflict that was being discussed in the comments. I decided to download during the giveaway period and worry about the details later.

    A virtual driver creates a "pretend" drive on your hard drive, similar to a "pretend" drive that is created when you partition your hard drive. That is, the software carves out a space on your hard drive and fools your OS into thinking that that space is a separate hard drive. Unlike partitioning software, the virtual drive driver creates a temporary drive without having to get too tech savvy.

    There are several advantages to having virtual drives. Gamers can experience considerable speed increases when they run their games on a virtual drive access times on a hard drive are considerably faster than on CDs.

    However, some DVDs and CDs might refuse to run when they notice a virtual drive present, because a virtual drive can allow the user to bypass copyright protection. So, it is a good idea to creat these drives only when you need them. You should not need Starburn's virtual drive when you do ordinary backups of CDs and DVDs, unless you are trying to make a copy of a disk that has copyright material. Back in the day when most software came on floppy or CD, we were always told that the first thing we should do when we receive such a disk was make a copy in case we lose the original.

    You will need the virtual drive if you wish to read the ISO file before copying it to something else. An ISO file is a kind of compressed file that contains an image of the entire contents of a CD or DVD. Just as you can't use the individual files contained in a .zip file without extracting them (you know that if you have downloaded and installed anything from GOTD), so too you cannot use anything inside an ISO without first extracting it. That is what the virtual drive is for.

    Posted 16 years ago #

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