fuck fuck motherfuck shit

[joreth]

godamn vista can fucking go to motherfucking hell with the goddamn jolly green giant thrusting it's humongous fucking green fist right up its ASS into it's colon, ripping it all the way up and a whole tank full of pirranahs sucking it's fucking cock and tearing it to shreds!

MICROSOFT ... YOU SUCK!!!!!

So, I bought this little doohickey that transfers analog audio sources and converts them to MP3

It came with Nero software.

I already had Nero installed because I use a dvd-burning software that utilizes Nero.  But I installed the one that came with the hardware because it was a more recent version.

The installation process crashed twice because "Nero has known compatibility issues with Windows Vista", according to its error message.  Yeah, along with EVERY OTHER FUCKING PIECE OF SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE KNOWN TO MAN.

Then it installed, but it refused to let me access any of its programs, telling me I had an unlicensed copy of Nero.  Heh, my first legitimate OS telling me that my first legitimate piece of software is not legitimate.

So I uninstalled it because my unlicenced version installed better and I can't burn DVDs without it.

But when I tried to install the previous version, I got as far as the screen where I put in the serial #, and the "next" button refused to un-grey itself.  First, it had the legit serial already in place, telling me that it detected another version already installed (remember the one I just uninstalled?).  It didn't allow me to use that number, so I put in the number that was previously associated with this installation disc.  No dice.

Nero is not showing up on my Programs list so I can't uninstall it anymore, and there is no uninstall option listed in the Start Menu folders, and I can't start up any of the Nero programs to try and fix it that way because it just tells me that it's an unlicensed copy and I should go to the website to get a licensed version.

So now I have bits and pieces of Nero floating around my system that I can't get out and no way to burn my DVDs.

Bill Gates, you can fucking suck my huge purple dick and I hope you choke on it.

Comments

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

You might be able to burn DVDs using SilentNight (http://www.silentnight2004.com/), cdrtfe (http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/cdrtfe/index_en.html), or (if you only need to burn ISO images) BurnCDCC (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html).

[joreth]

I'm making duplicates of all my copy-protected movies and I'm using DVDShrink. I don't have the room to make iso images or to save copies of movies to my harddrive. I'm making playable duplicates.

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I didn't realize DVDShrink could stream the data to Nero; I thought it had to have enough room on the hard drive for a temporary copy.

And if that's the case, you can use DVDShrink to make an .iso and then use another tool to burn the copy -- and then delete the .iso.

If you don't have enough disk space, though, I'm not sure what to suggest. If your project will be done soon enough, you could "rent" an external hard drive from an office supply store for the cost of the restocking fee.

[joreth]

It does make a temporary copy on the harddrive, but then it burns using Nero. And it's an on-going project, so a "rental" won't quite work. But thanks for the suggestions.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Did you try a system restore?

[joreth]

I don't know how to do that in Vista :-(

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

It SHOULD be in your systems tools list...

I went & looked at Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/backup.mspx

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Tons of developers are having big delays trying to get things to work under Vista. It's really hurting the industry.