Removed CDRwin 5 and now CD reads all CD's as audio

**MrLuigi** · May 30th, 2002, 01:37 AM

Well I un-installed CDRwin 5.0 and now my CDRW & DVD rom both read all CD's as audio CD's and at bootup windows wants to re-install Publisher XP but I can't get the CD to read because of the above problem.
MY system Specs.
oops...XP pro
AMD XP 1600+ (running at 1800+ speed)
Iwill KK266 (no raid)
512 MB PC133 cas2 from crucial
ATI Radeon 64mb with VIVO
40gb ata100 HD
CDRW
DVD-rom
nic card
system seems to run fine except the DVD & CDRW only recognize audio CD when any disk is put into the drives.
Hardware properties say CDRW & DVD are working w/o problems.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

**Rancher70818** · May 30th, 2002, 01:43 AM

Are we running winxp, if so do a restore point from before you had this prob, mite work, eh?

**MrLuigi** · May 30th, 2002, 03:31 AM

Well that didn't work
Good news is that it did not apparently damage my system any further.
Anyone have bug problems with re-installing xp on a system with xp already on it?

**KenKun** · May 30th, 2002, 03:37 AM

Anyone have bug problems with re-installing xp on a system with xp already on it?

Yea, i did that once.. all my files and programs was saved without problem ... i didn`t notice a bug, though ...

About your problem, did you try to delete all registry entries by CDRwin ? .. coz there might be some kind of left-over registry key which is causing the problem ... just a thought ..

Regards

**muno** · May 30th, 2002, 03:41 AM

A customer of mine once had a problem like that, it didn't have anything to do with cdrwin though.
She had some kinda cd player in her systray which made every cd to be recognized as audio cd though they weren't. Killing that application made the cd's work fine again.
-M

**MrLuigi** · May 30th, 2002, 04:29 AM

Thanks Ken & Muno....Naw...no weird apps in the system tray. Guess I'll try a re-install...

**algreco** · July 1st, 2002, 05:22 AM

While uninstalling CDRWIN the proggy changes the registry key of either the LowerFilter or the UpperFilter for the CD-ROM. In other words, it faqs up your drivers.
What might save ya ass is that Nero will be installed (last version preferable), cause it fixes this crap programme (CDRWIN) wrong doings automatically.
Shame on those people who used the name and glory of the original CDRWIN (which was great) and used it to gain profit while not investing the time and thought in trying to get this proggy to work.

**muno** · July 1st, 2002, 06:14 AM

I wasn't aware that cdrwin did that too. Roxio easy cd creator 5 is known to have such behavior. But messing the filter registry keys made cd-/dvdrom disappear completely with yellow remarks on device manager.
-M