Unduly Noted

Apparently Daemon Tools and or Alcohol 120 can slightly give you a headache. After several weeks of running one of them on a Vista Home Premium system all of the sudden my dvd burner stopped working. Wouldn’t read anything. It was not hardware because it could be booted from just fine. Remove the device in device manager, rescan for hardware changes still produced the proper name of the product but with the yellow exclamation triangle mark over it. Windows said it would not start the device because of a missing or corrupt driver. It all turned out to be an easy registry fix. Here is the Microsoft Article explaining the solution. I backed up the entire {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} folder first (just right click it and export). All I had to remove was the LowerFilters Key. Then just uninstall the device from the device manager and rescan for changes. It now works again.