question about DVD rebuilder in Windows 8

[canete]

Hi everybody I just installed window 8 on my pc and then dvd rebuilder pro.
But "Matrix" folder was not created and i dont know folder any more.
How did you fix it?
attached image of created files

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/3150/np86.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/np86.png/)

[Groucho2004]

If I recall correctly, the Matrix folder is created the first time you run DVD Rebuilder.

[canete]

yes in win xp the Matrix folder is created the first time you run DVD Rebuilder, in 8 no :(
Do you use windows 8?
can I create folders manually?

[Groucho2004]

Do you use windows 8?
No, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. :)
can I create folders manually?
It's possibly some idiotic security thing with Win8. Try creating an empty "MATRIX" folder and check if the files are extracted when you run the application.

[jdobbs]

I don't have Windows 8 installed, so I haven't tested it. But it's possible (probable) that Win8 is protecting the installation folder against changes because of where it is. In Vista and Win7 there was something similar but folder virtualization fixed it. When software tried to do anything in the "Program Files" folder (like INI files -- which were supposed to be a Microsoft standard), the changes would actually be made elsewhere.

You may want to try installing in a folder other than "Program Files" (e.g. "c:\APPS\DVD-RB") and see if that fixes it. I've had to do that with several older software packages under Win 7.

[canete]

very thanks!I tried it

[Ch3vr0n]

disabling windows crap UAC should fix that. I aint having any problems with any programs that don't require installation and that i've placed in "Program Files" on my vista rig. Disabling UAC is the first thing i do, any pc i can get my hands on.

[canete]

the jdobbs method works, thanks!

[jdobbs]

Good to hear.

That whole virtualization thing was a nightmare. People would edit the INI files manually, and get frustrated when the changes didn't take effect -- and that was because the file that is actually being referenced isn't that one -- it's the virtual file in another folder that is hidden. Ughhh... sometimes I wonder how Microsoft got so big with that kind of thinking...

[manolito]

Couldn't agree more...:D

What really bugs me is that people like me who continue using XP are getting ridiculed even here at Doom9.

Instead of trying to find workarounds for all these MS nightmares I rather spend my time figuring out how I can continue using XP in a safe way after MS will have abandoned it next year. (Probably using some time freeze software which resets the system partition at every reboot).

Sorry for getting OT...:o



Cheers
manolito

[Audiophile1178]

I rather spend my time figuring out how I can continue using XP in a safe way after MS will have abandoned it next year. (Probably using some time freeze software which resets the system partition at every reboot).
manolito

Manolito, if you haven't hear of it (a lot of people haven't) Faronics Deep Freeze is exactly the type of software that you just described.

http://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze/

Once you set it up correctly it's a pretty nice piece of software to use.

[Groucho2004]

I rather spend my time figuring out how I can continue using XP in a safe way after MS will have abandoned it next year.
There is nothing to figure out. The only thing that will keep you from using XP for many years to come is when you want to use software that does not run on XP.

As for the safety - If you have a router (which also is a hardware firewall), you already have 95 % of the security you need. Add a good software firewall (properly configured, of course) and you're all set.
This will not protect against stupidity like clicking on suspicious web dialogs or running unknown email attachments. However, when you drive your car, you don't drive into a tree because you know what will happen, right?

I have never used AV software and I have never had a problem in 20 years. If people need AV then they're doing something wrong or they don't know how to use a computer.

[Emulgator]

+1.
I also try to run everything within XP as far as possible.

BTW, DVD-RB is portable as many other useful tools.

<rant, nörgl>
..If something is not portable at once, I will unpack any installer and try to run the result or try to rebuild the missing environment somehow.
I use to run those portables in a dedicated _PROG folder outside of Mircosoft's Privileged Access Dormitory.
(where System is in posession of certain locations, not user nor administrator....)

This will work as well in Win 6, Win7 (I am doomed to run one because of the hardware and available drivers,
(Win 8 I touched only in a VM, and then immediately lost any interest, but still there something portable should be executable)

After all an OS is only a hausmeister (janitor, caretaker).
A hausmeister shall know nothing about the things going on in the house.
He shall obey his landlord, let contractors in and give them those keys when ordered to do so.
Period.
</rant, nörgl>