Vista: DVD-RB loses CCE?

[DMF]

I installed CCE (2.70) on my new Vista machine and DVD-RB (0.98.2). Like on the previous machine they ran fine ... for a while. But since the new machine is so fast I started poking around in Batch Processing - something I've never used before. And am not using now. I only mention it because things happened right after that.

Suddenly DVD-RB will go through the first phase, then when it starts the second phase it reports that it can't find CCE. I go into Setup and the path under 'CCE SP' is correct. I restart the second phase (or start over) and this time it tells me that the CCE version I've selected in Prepare is not the same one that is on the path, then resets the selection (under CCE Options) to CCE Basic. Then reports that it can't find CCE Basic (no duh! - that path is empty).

I reset to SP Trial and again I get the mismatch. Restarting DBD-RB makes no difference. Re-installing DVD-RB makes no difference.

What on earth could be wrong? :scared:

[jdobbs]

Probably related to Vista virtualization. The freeware version isn't adapted for it. I would suggest you change the install path and put it somewhere other than the "Program Files" directory. That should limit the effects of virtualization.

[DMF]

Virtualization? As I say, the combo ran fine for at least a dozen discs.

Where are the setup options kept? In a file in the DVD-RB directory tree? Does it use the registry at all? Maybe the re-install isn't over-writing the (probably fubar) options.

Do you mean put DVD-RB somewhere else? Or CCE? Or both?

[jdobbs]

Put DVD-RB elsewhere. Try something like C:\DVD-RB

The virtualization is done by Vista for programs that try to modify INI files within their own path (as DVD-RB does). It's a long story -- you'll have to look it up yourself. The bottom line is that you aren't always necessarily modifying the file you think you are.

When you use DVD-RB's Batch processing it modifies the file in the apps path -- and the older (freeware) version doesn't know that it may be virtualized (it was written before Vista was released). That's why I asked you to install it elsewhere.

[DMF]

Thanks. I'll try it.