I-tunes taking over DVD drive
Whenever I install or upgrade i-tunes it takes over the DVD driver so that the DVD drive does not show up on my computer. This has happened before and just uninstalling the driver in Device Manager does not work. Dell have fixed it before for me by uninstalling the driver and deleting a string in the registry and then restarting the computer. Does anyone know which string in the registry i need to remove?
Was this previously happening on Vista on the Dell?
If so, best see the following document first:
[iTunes for Windows: Optical drive is no longer recognized, or "Disc burner or software not found" alert after install|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2308]
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1. Good.
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I did it. Here are my super-idiosyncratic results. They go against just about all the expectations i had from reading recent posts... so I hope it makes for interesting reading!
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