Enable/Disable CD Burning
If you choose to use a different CD burning program than the one supplied with Windows XP this edit will disable the default burner. In most cases this isn't necessary even if you choose an alternative burning program, but there are a few badly behaved burning programs out there that insist on this modification.
1 [Start] [Run] [Regedit]

2 Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3 Modify/Create the Value Name [NoCDBurning] according to the Value Data listed below
4 Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: NoCDBurning

5 Value Data: [0 - Enable Burning / 1 - Disable Burning]

6 Exit Registry and Reboot
Enable/Disable CD Burning for the Local Machine
1 [Start] [Run] [Regedit]

2 Registry Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer

3 Modify/Create the Value Name [NoCDBurning] according to the Value Data listed below
4 Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: NoCDBurning

5 Value Data: [0 - Enable Burning / 1 - Disable Burning]

6 Exit Registry and Reboot

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