Cannot do anything with the CD Writing Wizard

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Just recently I noticed that XP's built-in CD Writing Wizard wasn't
working.

I can burn and erase CD-RWs and burn CD-Rs like there's no tomorrow
using media players (WMP, Real, iTunes) and BHA's Recorder, but XP's
own will not work, although it recognises which type of disc is in (RW
or R) and will let me create temporary files ready to burn.

I've noticed that there's no "Recording" tab in the drive properties,
and when I click on "Write these files" or "Erase disk" all I get is
the "Default Beep" sound but no action.

I've checked in the registry for odd policies, and I've tried
uninstalling and reinstalling the drive itself, but all to no avail.
I'm assuming that something I've got installed has disabled it, but
even removing BHA's Recorder made no difference.

Is there a fix to this or am I just going to have to bite the bullet
and buy something worthwhile? (BHA's is a nightmare to use, but it
*was* free!)

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madkingsoup@gmail.com wrote:

> Just recently I noticed that XP's built-in CD Writing Wizard wasn't
> working.
>
> I can burn and erase CD-RWs and burn CD-Rs like there's no tomorrow
> using media players (WMP, Real, iTunes) and BHA's Recorder, but XP's
> own will not work, although it recognises which type of disc is in (RW
> or R) and will let me create temporary files ready to burn.
>
> I've noticed that there's no "Recording" tab in the drive properties,
> and when I click on "Write these files" or "Erase disk" all I get is
> the "Default Beep" sound but no action.
>
> I've checked in the registry for odd policies, and I've tried
> uninstalling and reinstalling the drive itself, but all to no avail.
> I'm assuming that something I've got installed has disabled it, but
> even removing BHA's Recorder made no difference.
>
> Is there a fix to this or am I just going to have to bite the bullet
> and buy something worthwhile? (BHA's is a nightmare to use, but it
> *was* free!)
>
>

Some 3rd party burning software will disable XP's burning capability.
In start | Run | services.msc is the IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service started?


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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User

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I just found something *very* interesting - for whatever strange reason
I tried right-clicking on the CD icon and choosing "Write these files
to CD" and it works.

So the problem isn't with the CD writing itself, it's with the shell,
by the look of it. It's the links in the CD Writing Tasks pane that
don't work - how do I fix these?

MKS

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I found that, which was why I restored everything TuneUp had done and
got some funcionality back.

I tried ShellExView and there was nothing there that made any
difference. As I said, the right-clikc context menu works perfectly
with the Cd Writing Wizard - it's the links in the left hand Task Pane
that do nothing at all. :-(

MKS