After doing some research i found something that may help solve the issue i have found that sometimes after installing a certain burning program and restarting prematurely can cause a burner not to burn cds This was the Fix "
Now while CD Burner is running it inhibits Windows own CD Burning facilities. It does this by setting the Registry value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\NoCDBurning = 1
whatever it was before, usually 0. When it normally terminates it resets this value to what it was on entry. If however, CD Burner is killed prematurely, by rebooting say, it will leave the Registry in this state, thus inhibiting Windows own CD Burning facilities from then on. Thereafter CD Burner would always reset this value to what it was on entry, namely 1, even on a normal termination."
I installed a burner program a while ago and am not sure if this may have caused my problem of not being able to read cd's and dvd's only being able to write to them. I uninstalled the software but maybe the program could have edited the registry keys. So My question is is there a simular registry that can be affected when installing a program that would not enable me to read discs? If so where or what is this registry (not including deleting upper and lower filters i have already tried that).
Greg Kay
