Stilly -

My Vista let me install my Roxio Easy-CD 8 burner program, but disabled it the first time I turned it on, and then informed me that it was being disabled at every boot after that. I could force it on and burn one disk, and then Vista turned it off again. Updated to Roxio Easy Media 10 and no problems since, but Vista is really hard on anything without the latest built-in DRM features.

I had Nero on our couple of XP machines, but it's set up more for multimedia and I've found Roxio better for data disks. Haven't tried our existing Nero version on Vista, but would expect it's too old to run.

The CD-ROM in my old XP machine was still running (with one BIOS update and two driver updates), but that computer was on it's third burner, second audio card, third graphics card and had gone through four monitors when it died last week of a smoked CPU.

(Services in about a week when the new computer gets here to hear the eulogy. Since the new one had to be Vista to get the hardware I need, it probably won't get the message.)

John