Total Commander CD/DVD Burning Plugin

Knowledge Base

• Q: How do I burn without administrator rights under Win2k/XP?
• Q: The plugin won't let me choose the burning speed, I only have "max." available
• Q: I'm getting "write error" messages when I try to put files from an archive in a burning project
• Q: When I accidentially close Total Commander while a CD is being burned, the CD is lost. Can't you disable closing TC while burning?

Q: How do I burn without administrator rights under Win2k/XP?

A:

Perform the following steps:

1. Open the "Local Security Policy" console by clicking on the start menu -> control panel -> administrative tools, and select local security policy.
2. Then expand the "Local Policies" section and select "security options".
3. Change "Devices: Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged-on user only." to ENABLED.

You should then be able to burn/erase mediums without administrator rights.

Q: The plugin won't let me choose the burning speed, I only have "max." available

A:

This behaviour can be caused by the following:

Q: I'm getting "write error" messages when I try to put files from an archive in a burning project

A:

This is not a bug or problem of the Burning Plugin, but a general behaviour, i.e. missing feature, of Total Commander itself. TC does not support copying or moving files directly from an archive (or packer plugin) to a filesystem plugin. You need to manually unpack the files first to a local HDD.

Q: When I accidentially close Total Commander while a CD is being burned, the CD is lost. Can't you disable closing TC while burning?

A:

That is not possible. From within a plugin there's no way of influencing TC that way. There's no method to tell TC "don't shut down until further notice", and plugins also don't get any function call "shutdown request, is it ok?" when TC ends.

You just have to be careful there. Or suggest that to the TC developers, they might be able to add something like that (a "shutdown ok?" request) to the plugin interface in a later TC version.