WMP disapearing CD-Drive

If anyone is interested, I found the fix myself.

Microsoft KnowledgeBase file:
Article ID : 316529

EW


"EW" <ew@nospam.com> wrote in message
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| First off, I don't use any of the 'online' web features of Windows
| Media Player 10.
|
| I Burned two music CDs the other day and on trying to burn another
| one, (different mp3 files that are not copy protected), Windows
Media
| Player could not find the DVD/CD-RW drive with "Press the F5 key to
| refresh", but never recognizes that I have a CD drive. I rebooted
and
| it came back once, but disappeared and can't be found by Windows
Media
| Player anymore.
|
| I can use another Burning program to Burn CDs, it finds my CD-drive
| fine.
|
| I'm also missing the Record Tab in the CD-RW Drive properties
through
| My Computer and Device Manager. I can't enable or disable cd burning
| with this drive if I wanted to.
| (the registry has the NoCDBurning setting to 0) to burn from this CD
| drive.
|
| I uninstalled Roxio 5.xx and Roxio 8 4 months ago, and WMP worked
fine
| up until recently. I downloaded the Roxio Fix (uninstall) and ran
it.
| It didn't fix the no Recording Tab in the CD drive properties.
|
| I'm using Deep Burner as my Burning program for now, and it works
| fine.
|
| I tried to find out how to uninstall and reinstall WMP10 , but I
can't
| find that info at MS. I don't 'Need' WMP for burning cds, I just
don't
| like that it's broken.
|
| Windows XP Home (SP1) ....... I'm cleaning off my hard drive and
| backing up my personal files to install SP2.
|
| Any other known fixes???
|
| EW
|
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