A Possible Solution if your DVD/CD burner disappears from VISTA

I finally have a fix after 9 months of not being able to use my laptop with ITunes/IPod due to the program disabling the DVD/CD drives on my Vista laptop. You can try this ... if it does not work for you, you can simply restore the file.
Search for the following file:
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\AFS.SYS
The fix I found recommended renaming the file as a TXT file extension, but I could not get that to work, so I just deleted it, figuring that if it did anything else detrimental to my operating system after a reboot, I could just restore it out of the recycle bin. Sure enough, getting rid of AFS.SYS restored the DVD/CD drive to MY COMPUTER right away!
The file supposedly allows CD recording functionality with the following programs:
 HP Memories Disc Creator
 Liquid Audio
 Portal Player
 Oak Technology SimpliCD
 Broderbund's Print Shop version 20
so if you try to use any of those on a VISTA Windows system, you might run into a problem with CD burning because VISTA is not compatible.
Hope this helps some of you out there, I know I searched message boards for months, tried many things and nothing worked. I can't remember where I found this (Maybe on a GEAR website?) so again, maybe this will save some others some grief!
I have not yet updated to the new 8.1 ITunes ... I am still on 8.0 so hopefully that will not cause any issues!

Hey McTav - I do not know why your computer does not have the same file on it - unless it is not built quite the same way since it is not a Dell. Maybe you could contact Gear to see if removing that file will do the same for you. I know in my case I could not get support from Dell, Apple, or Microsoft...
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