I have recently consolidated all of my home computers and servers into one notebook in preparation for travel. With only one computer, Kirsten and I now share. Being the tyrant that I am, I made her a “Limited User”. It turns out that this is not without a price.
If you are not an Administrator of a Windows XP machine, you cannot use ASPI. This might not mean much to most of my readers, let me translate: you cannot rip CD’s. It turns out that this is a sensible security precaution, as Bad People might use ASPI to do Bad Things. But I want Kip to be able to rip CD’s when I am not around, so I sought out the answer.
The answer is: ForceASPI 1.8. The official site seems to be down, perhaps brought down by Adaptec, whose drivers they appropriate. The google cache will give you the instructions, and a search for forceaspi18.zip will give you the file.
Allow me to mirror the instructions:
- Run dumpASPI to backup your current ASPI layer
- Run instASPI to install the new ASPI layer
- Reboot your PC
- Run aspichk to see if everything worked OK
Now AudioGrabber is happy, and it is now free (although I did pay for it, back in the day).
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3 Comments
at 10:29 am - 1st February 2005 Permalink
Does WiMP require ASPI for ripping? Burning I could almost understand (almost), but ripping seems kinda extreme?
at 10:36 am - 1st February 2005 Permalink
I don’t know about WMP. Who uses that? It sucks for ripping. Puts lots of junk in the folders and it never knows the tracklist. I have used Audiograbber for years and I am pleased with it.
at 8:33 am - 11th March 2006 Permalink
isn’t there any way to allow limited users in xp to have aspi by changing some settings in the os settings.??
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