Sidebar locking cdrom0

[Fearful1138]

Hi

I use ImgBurn to burn ISO files and the program always pops up up an error
message about not being able to lock the cd drive for exclusve access.

After a bit of digging using Sysinternals Process Explorer I discovered that
every time a disk is inserted sidebar.exe opens a file handle to
\device\CdRom0.

If I use ImgBurn without the sidebar running I don't get the error, which
confirns that sidebar.exe is the cause. Anyone know why sidebar.exe would
need to lock the cd? I don't have any gadgets on there that need access to it.

 

[Jon]

Hi

I use ImgBurn to burn ISO files and the program always pops up up an error
message about not being able to lock the cd drive for exclusve access.

After a bit of digging using Sysinternals Process Explorer I discovered
that
every time a disk is inserted sidebar.exe opens a file handle to
\device\CdRom0.

If I use ImgBurn without the sidebar running I don't get the error, which
confirns that sidebar.exe is the cause. Anyone know why sidebar.exe would
need to lock the cd? I don't have any gadgets on there that need access to
it.

I'd still suspect that one of your gadgets is the culprit.

Try uninstalling (+later reinstalling) any of the likely suspects, and see
if that resolves the issue.

 

[RalfG]

I saw the same error happening with ImgBurn when I used it the other day.
That didn't prevent using it BTW. I didn't look for a cause at the time but
I have noticed another quirk with Sidebar. It adds a volume control slider
into the windows mixer utility, either for itself or for assorted sidebar
gadgets that don't have any audio functions. That could be related to cdrom
issue.

 

[Fearful1138]

Oh I know. It's never stopped me using it.

I've got the the bottom of it, turns out it was my BBC Radio Player gadget.
It was trying to open a folder named E:\VIDEO_TS\ and another bunch of stuff
on the same drive when a CDRW was inserted (e:\ is my CD drive). Why it does
this is a mystery.

Sysinterals utilities rock!