SOLVED (for me): WinXP built-in CD burner keeps prompting for blank disks

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Lionel Fourquaux

Since I failed to find a solution using Google, I'm posting the answer here.

I had the following problem: my CD/DVD writer was not detected as such by
WinXP. When I followed the instructions in MS' knowledge base for forcing
the Recording tab to appear, I found that the built-in CD writing software
kept prompting me to insert a blank disk (while there was one in the CD
writer).

It turns out that the problem was caused by enabling "Restrict CD-ROM access
to locally logged-on user only" in the local security policy. With the
setting, the SYSTEM account had only read access to the CD device (checked
with winobj from http://www.sysinternals.com/). Thus, when the IMAPI service
tried to enumerate all CD writer, it didn't find any. Then the Windows
Explorer front-end reported it in this rather unclear way.

Disabling "Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged-on user only" fixed the
problem.
 
My DVD/CD writer does not recognize the drive E: that it was assigned to.
Now it shows DVD/CD under L: and under properties shows 0. What happened?
I just installed SP2 and my computer is slowly not doing anything properly.
When I click on a file/folder it opens with "Search" option only. Can't even
save, print, save-to, etc. Please help, Sandra in OKC
 
Sam Jones said:
My DVD/CD writer does not recognize the drive E: that it was assigned to.
Now it shows DVD/CD under L: and under properties shows 0. What
happened?
I just installed SP2 and my computer is slowly not doing anything
properly.
When I click on a file/folder it opens with "Search" option only. Can't
even
save, print, save-to, etc. Please help, Sandra in OKC
Click to expand...

Search Companion Starts If You Double-Click a Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321186
 
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