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Old 02-24-2008   #2 (permalink)
StephenB
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Re: Uninstalling OneCare disabled all of my CD/DVD Drives

"Michael Faklis" <Michael_Faklis@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>I had OneCare v2 on my XP Pro laptop and when the annual renewal approached,
>I decided to uninstall it and go to Norton 360. I uninstalled OneCare with
>the Remove Applications applet, but upon rebooting all (3) of my CD/DVD
>drives were unusable with Code 19 (corrupted registry).
>I finally did a System Restore to yesterday. The CD/DVD drives are working
>again. Now I have the (red) OneCare icon back on the tool bar, but it
>seems that all of its' services are off, since I have a large list of Urgent
>messages. How can I remove OneCare while retaining use of my CD/DVD drives.
>
>- Michael Faklis Michael_Faklis@xxxxxx
>
Go ahead and uninstall OneCare again.
Then use this script, http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_d...cd_dvd_fix.htm,
to restore the drives to Windows Explorer. This problem happens in Windows with
some burning software removal.

-steve
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