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To: William Bouril who wrote (25235)	2/2/2002 4:56:30 PM
From: Stang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Hmmmm.. Some stuff there I've never seen. Let's try an experiment to see if any device drivers/tsr are affecting your D: and E: click as follows start run type "sysedit" no quotes enter We will add a "rem" command to some lines to temporarily disable the item on boot up for a test. Type the text in bold in the appropriate file as shown below. DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO FILESHIGH=80 DEVICE=C:\essolo.sys BUFFERSHIGH=40,4 DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CPQIDECD.SYS /D:IDECD001 SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:2048 @C:\PROGRA~1\GRISOFT\AVG6\bootup.exe @Echo off C:\essolo.com if exist c:\pipost.bat call c:\pipost.bat if exist c:\pipost.bat del c:\pipost.bat SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WBEM;%PATH%;C:\WINDOWS\LHSP;C:\PROGRA~1\GRISOFT\AVG6 rem c:\windows\system\verflop.com rem c:\windows\system\verflop.com NOTICE the space after rem Save the files. Reboot Check your D: Stang

To: William Bouril who wrote (25235)	2/3/2002 11:28:43 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

This seems strange... This line loads a DOS driver for the CD DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CPQIDECD.SYS /D:IDECD001 But Windows doesn't need to load this driver from CONFIG.SYS at all. But equally as strange, after loading the DOS driver, you don't load the DOS TSR that uses it. I'd expect to see a line in AUTOEXEC.BAT that looks like this C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX /D:IDECD001 Disable the loading of CPQIDECD.SYS by placing a REM at the beginning of the line. This will disable the unneeded, (and unused) DOS device driver. This may reduce Windows’ confusion about your CD drives. Cheers, PW. P.S. For more information about this... Message 8051423 pmswitch.tripod.com (Scroll down to MSCDEX)