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HP RecordNow 3.0

HP RecordNow is disc mastering software that allows you to create your own music or data discs from files on your computer, or from other disc media such as CDs or DVDs. Music discs created with HP RecordNow will play on any CD player, whether it’s at home, in your car, or through your computer’s CD-ROM. HP RecordNow also makes it easy to create data discs that can be read on any appropriate CD or DVD disc reader.

NOTE: Some DVD players cannot read CD-R media. Refer to the documentation that accompanied your drive for information on supported media.

HP RecordNow guides you, step-by-step, through the recording process with simple Wizards and an intuitive user-interface. Using HP RecordNow you can create:

■Exact copies of existing discs

■Discs of archived data from your hard drive

■Music compilations from WAV or MP3 files, or from existing music discs

Manuals for HP RecordNow

Online Help is available for HP RecordNow from the Help menu in the HP RecordNow window.

A general discussion of CD formats and their limitations appears in the online HP CD-Writer User's Guide, in the section titled Can others read the CDs that I’ve written?.

A README file is accessible from the Start menu, the installation CD, and in Chapter 11 Release Notes, page 97.

Installing HP RecordNow

HP RecordNow is automatically installed by the HP CD-Writer installation program. Otherwise, to install HP RecordNow:

1.Insert the installation CD into your drive.

2.If the installation window does not appear automatically, go to Explorer and click on the drive containing the HP RecordNow installation CD. Double-click on SETUP.EXE.

3.When the installation window appears, click on HP RecordNow.

4.Follow the instructions on the screen.

Files Installed for HP RecordNow 3.0

Applicable to all supported OS platforms. (Win9x/ME, NT4 & Win2k).

Table 22 Location: C:\Program Files\HP MyCD <default >

Name

Description

Version

 

 

 

Media

Directory

N/A

 

 

 

System

Directory

N/A

 

 

 

Btnenh4.ocx

Active Multimedia Button, ActiveX Control

4.4.05

 

 

 

Cehelper.dll

CEHelper Module used by MyCD.EXE

1.0.0.3

 

 

 

DelsL1.isu

Uninstall log

N/A

 

 

 

MainENU.dll

English language library

N/A

 

 

 

Mycd.cnt

Help Table of Contents file

N/A

 

 

 

MyCD.exe

Main Application Executable

3.0

 

 

 

Mycd.gid

Help file

N/A

 

 

 

Mycd.hlp

Help File

N/A

 

 

 

Pconfig.dcf

Encrypted Configuration File

N/A

 

 

 

Readme.txt

User information text file

N/A

 

 

 

~cevts.che

Cache file for Data CD Creation

N/A

 

 

 

~cevts.db

Data base file for Data CD Creation

N/A

 

 

 

~cevts_001_tmp.dir

Directory to hold temporary files

N/A

 

 

 

Music.dat

Cache file used by MyCD.EXE

N/A

 

 

 

hp dvd-writer dvd100i Technical Support Solutions Guide 10/25/01

HP RecordNow 3.0

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