Installed HP UEFI Support Environment, now no option to boot from CD/DVD when pressing F9 on bootup

I have an HP ENVY TouchSmart 17-j153cl 17.3" Touchscreen Notebook
Product Name: HP Envy TS 17 Notebook PC
Product Number: F9M09UAR ABA
Operating System: Windows 8.1
I stupidly installed...
HP UEFI Support Environment - sp63599
...withou knowing what it does.
Now when I hit F9 to change boot order on bootup, I no longer have the option to boot from CD/DVD. The only two options available are to boot from OS boot manager or boot from efi file.
How can I uninstall sp63599 so I can boot from CD/DVD again?
If I select Legacy Boot in the BIOS it says I will not be able to start my operating system.
If all this means is that I will have to reinstall Windows from CD/DVD, then I can live with that.
What should I do to get the option of booting from CD/DVD back?

I figured it out.
EUFI only displays the CD/DVD boot option if you have an EUFI-bootable disk in the drive.
When there is no disk or a Linux boot disk in the drive the CD/DVD boot option does not show up.
When there is a WIndows 8.1 installation disk in the drive, the CD/DVD boot option shows up.
In the old-style BIOS the CD/DVD drive showed up whether there was a bootable disk in it or not.

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