Recording Tab in WIN XP

[exeterwayne]

Can someone plese help me? The Recording Tab on the Properties section on my CD Writer has vanished. It was there a week ago and now it's gone. I went into the RegEdit to look for the NoCDBurning field in Explorer Policies but there is no such field, so i created one with the same name and set the value to 0, rebooted and it's still not there. The explorer says it's a CD-RW drive, but it wont let me record on it within Windows. If someone can help me i would be really gratefull.

Wayne

[Yap]

control panel -> administrative tools -> service -> look whether IMAPI CD burning COM service has disabled... default value is manual

[exeterwayne]

Yep tried that, still not working. :-(

[Yap]

run regedit and navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives\Volume{random numbers}
look for "Drive Type" string and change the DWORD value to 2

[exeterwayne]

Done that, it was already set to number 2, think i'm gonna have to reinstall windows, i've also noticed that my CPU is at 100% and it Rundll32.exe causing it, ran a few spyware removal proggys but it still doing it and also ran a virus check, it found nothing. I HATE WINDOWS XP!!!! IT'S SHITE!!!!

[Play_The_0dds]

if the above fix does not get it for you try going in the device manager and removing the drive, reboot and after it reinstalls it should be back to normal.

[Yap]

IMO you should worry the cpu usage first than the recording tab
try to repair first before reinstall http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[DMC]

If you really do hate it then http://windowsrefund.net

[Play_The_0dds]

my post may have been confused, when i posted, this wasnt posted.
exeterwayne: Done that, it was already set to number 2, think i'm gonna have to reinstall windows, i've also noticed that my CPU is at 100% and it Rundll32.exe causing it, ran a few spyware removal proggys but it still doing it and also ran a virus check, it found nothing. I HATE WINDOWS XP!!!! IT'S SHITE!!!!

my post only meant to reinstall the burner, not windows. i agree the cpu usage should be delt with first.
but would help if we knew when all the trouble started, and if any new software, hardware, driver updates and anything at all was added or remove.