Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would
find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an
individual application... ie one of the above.
--
Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows


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Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now
and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped
recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program
including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then
randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of
programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I
didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't
watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again -
and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY
other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of
research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search
on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never
installed). Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!