Thank you very much Pokopiko
I followed your instructions and it worked very nicely.
I've played around with it for a couple of days.
It's great that you can start and terminate it when you want. That's something all should follow. Actually, it should be mandatory. Nobody will accept a car stereo that you can't switch off on demand, but some computer programs are just like that.
I also like that they found a way to do packet writing with iso standard, which is immediately readable on all systems.
The whole program is compact and very easy on resources. I deleted the only vxd from the Iosubsys folder, and it didn't mind at all, even tho I have Win98. This way I could keep the Nero vxd active, which is the way I like. Further it doesn't write more than a couple of tiny keys to the registry, which is great. I suspect with a full "official" installation it will be a bit more than that, but still sure not a registry polluter. Nice
What I do miss is that you can't save into the drive directly from applications, and that you can't drag 'n drop within Windows explorer. The "send to" function is something, but not enough. Also a bit annoying is that after every action you get the pop up window prompting to open and close the tray.
The biggest shortcoming is that FileCD can only write to CDRW's. If it could do CDR's it would have been a real winner, in my book.
So thank you very much again, I don't think it's going to stay for long on my system, but I'm sure it's a good step in the right direction. Maybe Mt Rainer is the ultimate solution, we shall soon see.
A very happy and healthy new year,
civilus