Windows Slow when CD-Rom Connected

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Drew Boillot

Hello, I have a windows 2000 PC that is incredibly slow when you have
a CD-ROM hooked to it. The 'system' sets at 99% CPU usage making it
impossible to do anything on the PC.

The only thing I can see is that it has EZ CD Creator, and NTI CD
Maker PRO, there was a note on the PC stating that someone tried to
reinstall the CD-Burning software, which ever one it was I don't know
and can't find out who it was that tried to do it. One other odd thing
is that there was a CDRom listing w/ a Yellow ! sign in the hidden
devices under the "non-PnP" section that said not everything was
loaded, or the device was not present in the PC.

TIA

Drew
 
Drew said:
Hello, I have a windows 2000 PC that is incredibly slow when you have
a CD-ROM hooked to it. The 'system' sets at 99% CPU usage making it
impossible to do anything on the PC.

The only thing I can see is that it has EZ CD Creator, and NTI CD
Maker PRO, there was a note on the PC stating that someone tried to
reinstall the CD-Burning software, which ever one it was I don't know
and can't find out who it was that tried to do it. One other odd thing
is that there was a CDRom listing w/ a Yellow ! sign in the hidden
devices under the "non-PnP" section that said not everything was
loaded, or the device was not present in the PC.

TIA

Drew
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I have seen all kinds of weird things happen when people have
several different CD burning apps installed. Try picking just
one and uninstalling the others.

At the very least, make sure that before someone tries to run
the NTI software they shut down all of the Adaptec - specifically
including the parts that put a couple of little icons in your
system tray. Do likewise for shutting down NTI before running
Adaptec.
 
We've uninstalled NTI and it is still extreamly slow. You can't even
use the system when you have a CD-Rom connected. We even uninstalled
Easy CD (or we thought we did, it's still showing up) and now the
control panel is messed up, (stuff shows up in the left pain when
"view as webpage" is slected) and the Add/Remove doesn't pull anything
up (white screen w/ black text along the top)

We've ran SFC and it didn't look like it did anything

Drew
 
EzCD Creator is notorious for this ... it should be avoided like the plague
it is.

Go the the Roxio website and look around. You should find instructions there
on how to completely remove EzCD from your computer including a necessary
registry hack. Or, possibly by now, they've come up with some downloadable
script that'll automate the task. God knows they've screwed up enough
computers.

When you get it all back together and working again, DO NOT load ANY packet
writing software. Not from Adaptec, Roxio, Nero (Ahead), NTI or anybody. It
doesn't work reliably. Period.
 
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