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My wife, for some reason, uninstalled Sonic DLA from my T60P and I want it back. I have looked in the apps file but the set-up exe file is not there. Am I missing something? How can I get this program back? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Others in this community have advised removing/ disabling DLA as it causes problems, although I forget what problems. You may want to look into it further with a local search.

On my machine, RecordNow is in the following directory:

c:\IBMTOOLS\APPS\RECNOW

Installing RecordNow will install DLA.

Thanks for the help. I downloaded it.
I was curious as to weather or not I could do it without being connected to the internet. I was wondering if I could do it from existing files on my computer.

On my T42, the setup.exe file for DLA is located here.

C:\IBMTOOLS\APPS\DLA

DLA causes Daemon tools can't work.
So I have to disable it.

dbertoni5000 wrote:On my machine, RecordNow is in the following directory:

c:\IBMTOOLS\APPS\RECNOW

Same on my machine, but the installers in that folder (INSNTMSI.EXE and INS9XMSI.EXE) are for older OS versions.

So, how can one re-install RecNow (which I now need to do)?

Run the setup.bat batch file, and it will start the appropriate installation program.

dbertoni5000 -- many thanks, I could now re-install all the RecordNow stuff.

But, unfortunately, the probelm I was trying to solve has remained. When I start the Multimedia Center or any of the RecordNow apps it crashes with the message "Mediahub.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close....".

Anybody any ideas what might be wrong?

I get this error now too. Apparently, it is caused by Windows Media Player 11.

Anyone been able to fix this?

Thanks

Hmm, what's Sonic DLA?

perry_78 wrote:Hmm, what's Sonic DLA?

DLA (Drive Letter Access)
I think it's a preinstalled software on Thinkpads which lets you burn files directly to a CD as if the drive were a floppy drive. Just drag and drop the files you want on your CD and voila!

Open My Computer and right-click on your optical drive. There is a DLA tab with a checkbox. Uncheck the box and see if that fixes your problem. Possibly a reboot is necessary, I am not sure.

FWIW, I have DLA installed and Media Player 11 installed. The above mentioned checkbox is unchecked, and I have no problems. You can always recheck the box if you need DLA's features.

Kamika007z wrote:I get this error now too....Anyone been able to fix this?

Are you are refering to the crash of Multimedia Center/RecordNow with the message "Mediahub.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close...."?

When I had that problem it was caused by the uninstallation of a demo program that left some registry settings in a mess. The solution was to re-register a dll file:

Start > Run... and enter regsvr32 msmxl3.dll

you mean regsvr32 msxml3.dll ?

DLA has a nasty habit of locking the drive so that the eject button doesn't work, even when you're not recording.

evensteven wrote:My wife, for some reason, uninstalled Sonic DLA from my T60P and I want it back. I have looked in the apps file but the set-up exe file is not there. Am I missing something? How can I get this program back? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You chose well; your wife is obviously very smart.

This sort of program, which allows "dragging and dropping" to an optical writer drive, would have made sense if they worked well back in the bad old days of expensive storage. Nowadays, they are simply problem causing bloatware.

Every optical disk program has something like this; Nero calls theirs "InCD." All of them are trouble with a capital "T."

Do yourself a favor and leave the program uninstalled. If you have need of this sort of facility go buy yourself a 1gb USB flash drive for $15 (on sale) and use the flash drive for this. It has more capacity than a rewritable CD, accepts dragged and dropped files without any unstable programs, and will be readable on anyone else's computer (which is something you can't say about a CD that has been written to by one of these DLA-type programs).

Good points, Ken.

GomJabbar wrote:Good points, Ken.

I should have added one other thing. These bundled Sonic applications aren't very good. For around $5 you can get an OEM Nero 6 disk. Don't get version 7 (the current one) as it is unstable and will cause untold frustration. I installed version 7 on my desktop and even after I un-installed it have residual problems with file associations. Version 6 can be updated for free online to version 6.6-something, which will do anything you would want to do with your Thinkpad's optical device. I held off installing Nero because I wanted to try the bundled software, but I'm batting 50% (usable disk/total burned, remainder being coasters) with the sonic bundled software, so I put Nero on all my new thinkpads yesterday.