CD-ROM drive icon missing

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

As my Mother would ask, "Where did you last use it?" ;-)

Restore Missing CD Drive
http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip

[[The popular CDGONE patch. CD drives may vanish in Windows Explorer, Device
Manager, etc. if a third-party CD-burning package has been uninstalled and
Registry references for some code modules aren’t removed successfully. This
patch and a reboot usually will restore the missing drives. Any third
party package still required will then have to be re-installed. ]]
http://aumha.org/reg3.htm

[[For more information on this and other possible causes, see the “Problems”
section of Alex Nichol’s Burning CDs in Windows XP article.]]
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

Restore CD/DVD Drives to Explorer
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts [...] vd_fix.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In news:965F0E0F-FE8E-412D-99FB-F437596BC63B@microsoft.com,
adam <adam@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> Hi:
>
> One day to the next my CD-ROM drive icon is missing. Went to Regedit
> and deleted values for LowerFilter; there is no UpperFilter Key,
> Multi-String values or data values. Rebooted and same issue. Any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Adam