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In my "wisdom" when faced with the news of multiple burgarlies in my area over Christmas, & I then had to leave the house unattended for most of Christmas Day, I determined to beat the beggars should they decide to try my house, and went and hid my brand new Win 7 discs!! Unfortunately and...

Hi everyone. I'm using a new Toshiba laptop with Windows 7, and I have a problem with the CD/DVD drive that I can't seem to find an answer to anywhere. Whenever I put a CD in the drive, W7 seems to think it's a VCD and begins trying to play it with Windows Media Player. This happens with every...

Did anyone else get stuck with the stupid software operated DVD drawer? I have software where I'm required to swich CDs. When many of the windows are open, they lack a "collapse" option. So I have to close the windows till I get a "collapse" option. Then I can open the drawer to swich CDs...

I use Media Center to play and rip CD's. Is this some type of malware protection mechanism? Is it a glitch? Will it be addressed later in a service pack? I love Media Center. I try to use it whenever possible but especially for playing and ripping cd's. For now, under start>default...

Hi I have a Sony Vaio FW21L. In installed Windows 7 RTM MSDN version. I then tried to install all the drivers and sony software using the recovery cds but everytime it gets to 50% I get the error: vaio error 505 41 and the installer closes. Does anyone know how I can sort this? Thanks

Well the problem's fairly simple, my optical drive won't read DVDs on W7. CDs work fine (I tried Diablo 2 & Warcraft 3) but DVDs won't work. I tried one I burned myself, several games and a few dual-layer ones. Windows just doesn't see a disc in the drive and when I want to open the disc from my...

I have the latest Itunes on 32bit RC I can rip CDs with Itunes (m4a format) without issues. WMP will play the songs fine but will not add them to the library. The songs show up under "Other Media". Properties show that "This file is missing media rights". I can rip the CDs with WMP and...

How do you do this? Making recovery cds?

Angry I-Tunes is rubbish I have the 30Gb video I-Pod, it has about 250 albums and about 8 movies on it, there's around 9Gb of hard disk space left. As most of you know, your I-Pod will mirror what's saved on your hard drive on your computer in your I-Tunes saved data folder. Also as most of...

Hello, I'm a first timer here. :) Is there anyway possible to burn a Vista ISO to CD-Rs? I currently don't have a DVD Burner and was just wanting to know if its possible to place it on CDs. Thanks! :)