Guest Dale -

Someone earlier in the thread did mention needing to get an update from Roxio. I didn't find anything new there, but had updated (for other reasons) very shortly before running the SP2 install so I probably already had the one needed.

The prior updates to WinXP - or something - had slowed down AV scans somewhat - too many security systems I guess, or just too many sigs in the file to check. I found (after updating to Roxio's latest patch for my ver.) that my Norton AV was insisting on scanning each file as it loaded/opened to be burned, and would occasionally cause a timeout on the buffer overrun protection - resulting in a bad burn. At least I think that's what was going on, and I have not had a bad one since I started unhooking from the 'net and turning off the AV while burning.

I haven't checked to see if installing SP2 helped or hurt the burner situation - just continued shutting off AV to burn; but if you loaded an older version you might want to check with Roxio for updates.

HP has been pretty good about keeping up with driver updates whenever needed, so you might see if they can download a "better" one than you have; but most HP printers are pretty good about running with generic (esp. generic HP) drivers too.

Epson is more of a problem, since they essentially refuse (they say "decline") to submit their drivers for "Windows compatibility certification." I've had a couple of different Win systems argue about installing Epson's latest because of the lack of a "cert signature," and Win2K flatly refused to install one of their scanner drivers for me recently. The error message was something like "I ain't gonna touch that dirty thing - it'll hurt me." A couple of Epson devices I had on my WinXP machine didn't seem to be affected by SP2 though.

John