Re: HELP cant burn cd

Neil,

I'm intrigued by this thread.

If this service is set to manual, will a CD/DVD burner not work?

I have a CD-RW and a DVD-RW as well, but I cannot use the CD-RW after
installing the DVD-RW (both are Lite-On models). Now they both are acting
up.

Regards.

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 13 May 2010 10:07:02 -0500, JeffMAC
> <> wrote:
>
>>
>>im running XP i have 2 burners ive been burning cds for a long time i
>>know how to do it but i went on vacation for a week and came back now my
>>burner isnt being read by the wmp i can play cds and rip cds but it says
>>"connect a burner and restart" when i click on "burn" on the top of the
>>wmp what the hell happend?
>
> Hi - probaby the IMAPI CD burning service on which media player
> depends, is somehow disabled. Perhaps it's related to an update of one
> or both of the CD writers.
>
> Head to the Start menu, choose Run... and in the box, type
>
> services.msc
>
> Press <enter> then scrol down the list of services until you see IMAPI
>
> You want that to be Started (click Start... if it isn't already) and
> to be set to Start Automatically - double-click the service name and
> set the dropdown there to Start Automatically
>
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
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