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   Message 145,359 of 146,966   
   Willem van den Blink to joop g   
   Re: atapi.sys   
   25 Sep 10 22:33:33   
   
   From: wblinks@xs4all.nl   
      
   On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:55:08 +0200, joop g  wrote:   
      
   >>>> Registry   
   >>>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/Currentcontrolset/Control/Class/   
   >>>> {4d36e965-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Removed "UpperFilters" and "LowerFilters"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Restarted and EUREKA!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Willem.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> (remove s from wblinks for email reply)   
   >>>   
   >>> I am flabbergasted. Your CD-ROM is not working, and you remove two (in my   
   >>> opinion totally unrelated) registry keys, and it works!   
   >>   
   >> That 'fix' dates back to XP's original release... among others.   
   >   
   >Okay, but where can I find any info about it? I mean, you regularly read   
   >questions like "xxx does not work" and then the answer is "change key yyy   
   >in the registry into zzz". And then I am left wondering: how do these   
   >people (including, presumably, you) know this? I am not clairvoyant, and I   
   >would be quite willing to RTFM, but I do not know about any FM.   
      
      
   I donīt have any idea about the background.   
   Iīm happy for now, will investigate later (or not).   
      
   Only thing I can say is iTunes started yepping about missing reg-vals   
   afterwards, but still works without them reg entries.   
      
   Willem.   
      
   (remove s from wblinks for email reply)   
      
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