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Quote: Originally Posted by gotrocks Hi Folks, Back again with a computer question. I just pulled out a stack of old CD-R Verbatim 74min 650MB, They were created a few years back on my old setup using a HP CD Writer Plus. Now when I attempt to read with my Acer DVD R/RW nothing shows up. Properties indicates CD is FULL, but no files showing when opened. What say you? Thanks for any and all suggestions. Merry Christmas! CD and DVD media are...

The only thing I can think off is that when you burned the disks a feature that enables adding files latter was enabled. AFAIK this could cause some drives not to read the disks later on. You could try to read the disk on a different computer to see if it works. HTH

Hi Folks, Back again with a computer question. I just pulled out a stack of old CD-R Verbatim 74min 650MB, They were created a few years back on my old setup using a HP CD Writer Plus. Now when I attempt to read with my Acer DVD R/RW nothing shows up. Properties indicates CD is FULL, but no files showing when opened. What say you? Thanks for any and all suggestions. Merry Christmas!

I was blown away when I saw him do this in '92: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2flR-0QhkE I so wish he had recorded a proper version of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE3Fo_593fc

I used AVG free for a couple years. Since I just upgraded to Win7, I'm giving Microsoft's free Security Essentials a go. It's been great. Keeps itself up to date, it's unobtrusive, and most of all it doesn't hog resources. It didn't even slow down startup as most apps do.

Virus software is a tough one for me. I want something that is easy, doesn't get in the way, doesn't use much resources, actually works (since nothing happens when it works correctly, how do you know it’s working???) and isn't real expensive. And it is even more frustrating since the only important file (and it was very important to the company I worked for) I have ever lost was taken out by McAfee!!! – TF

At work we had etrust but the definitions weren't updated as frequently as I would have liked, so we migrated to norton, which hogs system resources and slows down your machine incredibly, so we have now switched to trend micro and i love it. I have used AVG in the past, but I think with the free version you do get what you pay for. As for spybot well that is a different sort of app, but most decent malware is able to bypass it these...

Using AVG free edition, (with adition of SpyBot search and destroy) never had any serious problems. The only thing that spybot needs to be updated manually each time. By the way: i heard rumors that Norton slows down system, as it is quite heavy (use a lot of resources). Should be not very good combination with Photoshop etc. which also uses a lot of resources.

I've been using Kapersky for some years now. I can protect 3 systems for a year for about the price you mention (two Vista 32 and one Vista 64 in my case). - Never had any problems with it except that it lost it's database of definitions once and I had to reload them. - It hisses reassuringly at anything suspect - like the Google ad a couple of weeks ago. That was impressive - The updates come through every 6 hours or so which is...

I wouldn't touch Norton with someone else's barge pole.