Hoster Demo

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

You guys are talking apples and oranges. Billy what you saw when downloaded/installed the Demo is coming from outside of Hoster. Do you have Spybot or something like that loaded on that computer? That would be the source of the message you saw pop up. It is a protection to keep anything from changing the registry without you knowing that it is happening. You did right by marking it as "always allow" and letting Hoster do it.
What Mark is talking about is when you open Hoster it pops-up the CD\DVD drive dialog. Drives that were showing as good in 4.06 are now showing up as bad for some people. Instead of retesting and trying to get them to show good, just hit the cancel. Then try importing from one of the two drives that show as Bad and it should work even though it is marked bad that is if they were good in 4.06.
Another work around is if 3.4 is on the computer (which is still included with 4.08) then you can open it (with 4.08 closed) and run the Detect Again from it's Default Drive tool and after they show Good closed 3.4 and open 4.08 and they should show good there as well. That was how I fixed one of my computers.
The 4.08 bug is that the Registry entries for the drive state (good or bad) isn't being set by Hoster but the drives will work anyway. The bother is most people with this bug have all their drives being marked as bad, so they see the drive dialog pop up every time they open Hoster. Since one of your drives show as Good, then you won't see it pop up at that time.

dale, i downloaded the demo again and i did your suggestion, unable to cancell unless i click on the retest button, did the cancell and only one drive showed good ( colored green ), opened hoster tried to import same disc, on the good drive error msg. "cd/dvd drive not ready" so i re insert the disc,on the other drive, the progress bar did not even moved, and my cd/dvd drive did not even light up, so i tried the first drive another error, "program not responding"..so did it over and same result..progress bar didnt moved, no light on both drives..does 3.4 included on the 4.08 demo, caused i cant find it, remember now this is my test pc i dont have hoster loaded in it, just MS..