Egon's Dragon

Burning multisession DVDs. What a tangled mess I've stepped into. I thought "gee, I can just keep adding to it, it's like a huge multisession CD". How foolish of me! I've found a few threads about multisession DVD burning and I see now that DVD-ROM drives will most likely have trouble with them. I have a LITE-ON SHW-160P6S DVD/CD writer, and a LITE-ON SHD-16P1S DVD-ROM, both with latest firmware. Nero (I have 6.6xx), of course, gives the message "additional sessions will not be read on lower than XP" if you try to write a multisession data DVD. If I install Nero Multimounter on this machine, can the ROM drive read multisession DVDs? If I install it on my Dell Laptop with Windows 2K Pro (old Dell Inspiron), can it read them? Or, should I use DVD+RWs? Do I have to erase the disc every time I want to add something (and re-burn the old files plus the new ones)? Other relevant info: XP Pro Athlon Duo 1GB RAM etc. Thanks very much. This is more complicated than I thought; but then, everything remotely related to computers is more complicated than it needs to be.

OK, I'll try it and see.

What about TrueCrypt?

How do I know if it's NTFS?

Well anyway, Googling is like finding a needle in a haystack. I'm looking for something freeware, that specifically encrypts optical media. Is there anything good on sourceforge?

Hi, I'm a bit new to XP and the User Account functionality. When I install a program, it is usually in all user accounts. However, I installed Half-Life 2, and it is only in the user account (an admin account) that installed it. The installer didn't ask me to do this. Older games are in all users. My question is, is it possible to restrict program/application access to specific users? After I've already installed them?

Hmmm, too many **** programs. I'll have to search a bit. But is it possible to do what I want? Encrypt a CD-R/RW and back up to it frequently?

Sure! Word doc files, mostly, that contain sensitive information (names, for example). I want to encrypt these in a folder on my hard drive, which seems straight forward, but I'd also like to back them up periodically (twice a month, for example) to an optical disc, but have the disc be encrypted. Hey, he started it!

Diky moc, skusim to. Jste z Slovenska? Thanks, I'll have a look at Secret Record v. 3. Any other suggestions? Is encrypting a CD/DVD possible?

I am wondering if it is possible to encrypt a CD-R or CD-RW (DVD equivalent) so I can save sensitive information, frequently. I don't want to use a .RAR archive, for example, as I would have to re-write the entire archive, which I can't do on a CD or DVD-R. Is this even possible, using encryption software? Please help! EDIT: If you have any software suggestions, any freeware/open source?

So, after 2 days, Avast! has updated and I got rid of this **** thing. I've seen this article in PCWorld: E-mail Scammers Pose as FBI, CIA I guess it was the Sober worm. Sober worm 1, me, 0. A lapse in good judgment on my part.

I have a virus/worm on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 3800, Windows 2000 Pro, Celeron, 296MB RAM). It came from a spam email, from a ZIP attachment that had an exe inside. Stupid, I know. It was from ...@cia.gov, and it went something like this: "Your IP address has been linked to 30 illegal websites" and said a questionnaire was attached. Of course most of you here would delete this as spam instantly, but just to let you know. So here's what it's done: a folder was created inside WINNT called WinSecurity. Inside this folder are copies of 3 services: services.exe, lsass.exe, csrss.exe, maybe another one, and some other files like .dli or something. 2 registry keys have been created, one in Local Machine/Software/Microsoft/Current Version/Run, the other in Current User and same path. They are: run WINNT/WinSecurity/services.exe. If I delete these keys, they return immediately. Tiny Personal Firewall keeps popping up saying: "...Noticed that the file lsass.exe has been replaced. Do you accept this?" Over and over. And a window saying "Windows could not open the file LSASS.exe". I can operate the computer otherwise; I have to move these. In the task manager, I see "lsass.exe" and "LSASS.exe" and the same for the others. Which one is the fake one? One of them tried to connect to something in the UK but Tiny stopped it. So, as Windows thinks these executables are services, I can't stop them via Task Manager and I can't delete them. Antivirus: I have the Avast! free home version, latest virus updates 20.11 (Nov. 20th) and apparently this virus isn't in it, as it didn't pick it up in a scan. I could wait until Avast updates next, which could a few days, or somehow remove these **** things manually, but I don't know how. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Autorun of my CDs used to work fine; mainly game discs I'm concerned about. I installed Tweak UI, which probably wasn't a good idea, and I think that did it. I don't know how to uninstall Tweak, but I've clicked "Restore Factory Defaults" and still no change in autorun. I assume that something in the registry must be changed? Any help would be appreciated. Oh--Windows 2000 Pro, Dell Inspiron 3800, Celeron.

Nevermind, sorry, I've just reinstalled Hexen II and the Mission Pack installed.

Thanks, man, but WinRAR won't let me open setup.exe--file is either damaged or unknown format.

I know this game is old, but I don't know where else to turn. I have an official copy of Hexen II installed. I downloaded an image copy of Portal of Praevus (simply because the bugger is so hard to find), the mission pack for Hexen II. I can't install it; it says, "an installed copy of Hexen II is required". But it's installed! I installed the original game in the default directory. I'm guessing that Praevus' installer can't "see" the installed game; perhaps it's looking for a different directory? Is there someway in the install files that I can check this? Or is it something else entirely? If someone has any advice I'd be very thankful. Btw--Windows 2000 Pro

UPDATE: I struggled with some DOS emulators, like VDSM, to no avail; I simply made a shortcut on the desktop for the installer, enabled Win 95 compatibility, and boom, installed fine, but strangely, very slowly. And, also strangely, if I enable Win 95 compatibility to use Photoshop 3, I get an error about 16-bit drivers or somesuch, but if I disable compatibility, no error. Well, whatever.

Definitely do a clean install, get ME the hell off your system. I used fdisk to completely reformat my drive. Get behind me, Satan! Of course, it completely wipes your drive, so you have to re-install everything from scratch.

So, I'm thinking of switching from IE, as it has security holes and is a resource hog for my old Celeron 500 laptop. I'm sure the alternative browsers are better security-wise, but what about resources? And, a very important consideration for me: we have tons of IE favorites/bookmarks. Can I simply transfer them to these other browser programs? Finally, does Windows Update work with the other browsers?

Cool, thanks! I'll have a look.

I thought newer programs like Clone DVD (in conjunction with AnyDVD) allowed you to compress the ripped files. Is that right? Of course, it isn't freeware like DVDShrink, but with DVDShrink you need burning software anyway.

I don't know if this a thread somewhere, but what do y'all think is the best web browser? I have IE, it's a **** resource hog (for my old ca. 2000 Dell laptop), of course the security problems, etc. I know Mozilla is popular, I don't know about Netscape, what about Opera, Avant, etc. Secondly, my wife and I have tons of bookmarks (favorites) in IE; are these transferable to the other programs?

As far as I know, yes, it is legal. There are many legitimate programs you can buy to do that, without having to flash your firmware. It isn't really manipulation; more like fooling your DVD-ROM into thinking it's the same region as the DVD you put in. Anyway, VLC is a clumsy DVD player.

Thanks for the tips! Actually, I don't have a portable mp3 at this point, it's just for ripping and sending mp3s to friends. I'll check out CDex.

I'd like to rip some of my CDs and convert the tracks to mp3s, but I'm new to this software. What recommendations do you all have for a good program? My conditions are: small, no flashy GUI, ability to set the bitrate (e.g., from 76kbs to 256 or more). Thanks!