Wednesday, March 22, 2006

How to disable CD Burning in Windows XP

Windows XP comes with in built CD burning. You don't need third party software to burn CDs in windows XP. Any way if you want to disable CD burning do this trick.
Start>Run
Type regedit
This opens the registry editor
Browse to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Set 00000001 to the dword entry "NoCDBurning". Create the entry if it is not there.
You may have to restart the computer to make changes to effect.
Put dword value to 00000000 to enable CD burning back.

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