People, I'm getting angry

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Hi. Once again, good old me wants to ask non customizing questions but I really need this help.

1)In XP Pro, I encryped my whole E:\ Drive (my hard drive) and my dad deleted my account and started a new one. Now NONE!!!>of my programs work. What can I do???

2) That EAC WAV to MP3 program some one told me to use??? It dosn't work. Can some one tell me a GOOD WAV to MP3 (CD to MP3) program that WORKS in XP Pro.

Thanks and adni18?? LOVE your work and every one who puts this stuff on the site, keep it up ya'll!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
KingKaoS heres a simple long time sulotion REINSTALL ALL PROGRAMES!! well hope that helps lol im have troble too no ones helping me

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
1) Tell your Dad to stay off your computer or stay of his! 2 people and 1 computer is always going to cause trouble.

2) Try this:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1014188586

p.s. - This is a message board not a help desk. While there is no problem in asking questions please don't get pissy if you do not get an answer!
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
EAC is not the most user friendly of programs - it requires a little bit of time to setup and workout what does what. Another program you could try is http://www.cdex.n3.net/

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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
EAC is about the best out there. Just click on the "I'm an Idiot" button and it sets itself up to record VBR @ 128kbs. It's really cool to watch it play on winamp because the kbs window bounces between 0 and 320 kbs through the entire song. The average length of the song works out to 128/130 kbs and is not any longer than if recorded at a straight 128, but because it's VBR the quality is much higher. Not to mention that it is all FREE...
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
CD eX is the 'go'.....i'll give you a link as soon as Iremember how... [was a good night]....
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jafo.....Woodbridge has already posted the link to CD ex...........
Must have been a VERY good night.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Randy...it was a 'great' night....[don't try this at home, kids]...nothing better than a good wine or three, and some good friends to enjoy it...;zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh, boy......dunno what that was all about....supposeed to be...." '....but....
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Put me to bed, Doreen........I'm 'tired and emotional'....
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
/me puts Jafo in the bed tryin to avoid the alcohol fumes and puts the covers on him... hehe
g'night Jafo
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
EAC has an 'I'm an idiot' button? Damn, wish I know that before I spent about 1/2 hr setting it up

Incidentally, if anyone cares I'm using EAC with the LAME encoder set to '--alt preset standard -F' with the secure mode CD thingy. I've been redoing my entire CD collection using this and now my even my old and sratched CDs turn out 98% perfect quality hmmm only 50 cds to go

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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
1. Tell your dad to stay away from your machine and reinstall.

2. ExactAudioCopy is _the_ app to use for your ripping needs. I've got it set up to high quality ripping (can take many hours) and then compress it to MusePack, which is _the_ lossy compression algorhythm.
There is some weird issue with newer builds of either EAC or mppenc (I suspect the latter), 'cos lately I just end up with .wavs instead of the .mpcs I wanted.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I should refrain from posting, but what the heck.

(stepping on the soapbox)

Computers and software are such complex and tempermental things that's it's rare that you can describe them accurately and definitively with absolutes. Therefore, to state or imply that EAC doesn't work with XP PRO and/or doesn't work well probably isn't accurate. A more accurate statement would be that you can't get it to work on *your* installation of XP PRO.

(steps off soapbox)

BTW, EAC works great on my W2K, XP Home, and SP Pro installations. Depending on your symptoms you may have an ASPI problem. What exactly were the symptoms?
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, i download the .zip file and copy the contence onto my computer. I try to run EAC.exe and it clicks away and...... nothing... in the Task Maneger it says it is going but nothing, . I needa no wot 2 do.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That's pretty bad, alright. You could always try the brute force method of uninstalling, redownloading (in case something went awry or you've got an old version), and reinstalling.