Dunmiester

Reply to Application removed my CD & DVD drives from windows, now I can't get them back. in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

Hi Corky O and thanks for the post. I wasn't clear enough in my post due to my instense frustration at the time. As you guessed I am running XP Pro SP2 and your idea is very nearly what I did try. The drives were listed in the device listing with the typically warning indicator or no driver. I tried uninstalling and then searching for new drivers. The generic CD/DVD drivers from the drivers cache should have easily recognized them and allow

Reply to Application removed my CD & DVD drives from windows, now I can't get them back. in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

Good idea except... I probably wasn't clear enough in my post. I am running WinXP Professional SP2. Just so you know, windows includes drivers for CD & DVD drives in it's driver cab files and uses these drivers to allow the system to boot from a CDROM in the first place in order to install Windows XP. My problem came from something happening whereby the drivers were removed and windows lost its ability to update the drivers. The drives did a

Application removed my CD & DVD drives from windows, now I can't get them back. in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

Hey folks, like most of your software but it is full of bugs. I found a really big one here and can't find a fix. Installed all the regular apps from SDCentral after purchasing ODesktop. Then used some of the widgets under DesktopX like DVD and CDrom widgets. Removed them from the desktop and now my drives are gone. They show up in the device list without drivers and since I can't get the the cdroms now, can't use windows to load new driver