CD Drive disabled after installing Elements 11 on Windows 7

I realized a couple of days after I installed Elements 11 on my Dell laptop running Windows 7 that the CD/DVD drive on my laptop was no longer visible to the operating system.   After fooling around for an hour trying to get a disc out, I remembered that I'd installed the Elements software & started looking for software solutions.
Many things I tried didn't work & I didn't want to start editing the registry as suggested by the Adobe knowledge base article I found.   However, Microsoft saved me with their Fix It tool.   Everything worked fine after I ran it and rebooted.   Note that the tool doesn't tell you to reboot.   The fix it tool can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us
I don't know what Elements 11 corrupted but I'm not happy that Adobe's quality control didn't catch it.   I've got a very vanilla laptop (Dell Studio) and I'm sure that other people are going to have this problem.
Lorne

That's a system issue to do with your USB ports and similar stuff. What is the exact error? Have you checked your device manager and let it repair the USB drivers.
Mylenium

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