Enable/Disable CD Burning

For some reason my company laptop was provided to me with the default Windows XP CD burning application disabled. A bit of Googling found the solution which I have reproduced here from http://www.theeldergeek.com/. However, if your system administrator went so far as to prevent CD-Writing on your laptop, I don’t imagine you have administrator permissions on the machine which is required for this registry edit. The usual caveats about editing the registry apply. If you don’t know what I mean, you shouldn’t do this.

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.

[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\E xplorer
Modify/Create the Value Name [NoCDBurning] according to the Value Data listed below.
Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: NoCDBurning
Value Data: [0 - Enable Burning / 1 - Disable Burning]
Exit Registry and Reboot

Enable/Disable CD Burning for the Local Machine

[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\ Explorer
Modify/Create the Value Name [NoCDBurning] according to the Value Data listed below.
Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: NoCDBurning
Value Data: [0 - Enable Burning / 1 - Disable Burning]
Exit Registry and Reboot