At least for someone in my situation, without the responsibility for any other machines other than my own. I am sure that many here can benefit from it.įor my part, running, not hundreds of computers as a professional computer OS administrator or repairer, but only my one good old laptop for my own personal business, I do have, based on my own and very personal experience, since the days of Win 98, a somewhat different take on what is coming and how to be ready for it. Thanks, Canadian Tech, for taken the time and trouble to explain in careful detail one way to keep running Windows 7 safely after EOL in January. The problem was caused by using DVD disks with the wrong sign! Tried one of the new blank + DVDs to see if I could burn something on it and… problem solved! The optical drive was as OK as could be expected given its several years of service. So I went back and got a pack of + from there. So I checked and, sure enough, found that the pack of DVDs, recently bought at the local Staples, was all –. Then I mentioned my problem here and someone (maybe you, AJNorth?) told me to check if the DVD disks I was using were + or – and to use only +. I decided the built-in DVD drive was coming to a rather earlier end of its existence, muttered something no fit for repeating here about OEMs fondness for building their machines using showy, but cheap, flimsy stuff, and started looking online for a replacement. One good day Win 7 laptop stop burning DVDs: it would get right to the end of the burn, then change its mind and terminate with an error message saying that it had failed to complete the recording (which I thought was a little unnecessary).
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