1. Initial Windows startup – activate CD (any media) in ROM drive – all seems well.
2. Close the program using the CD; open ROM drive and restart drive (any CD media):
a. “What should Windows do with this media” dialog opens with missing Icons, background and characters.
b. Click desktop program Icon and received notices like “This is not a valid System 32 program” for a program that was just working correctly; “Do you want to install ‘program’ from the web site” for a program working properly before.
c. If a program does open, text lines and Icons are missing.
d. Open Windows Desktop Explorer and have Icons and text missing from ‘tree’ or even have it indicate “Windows Explore exe is not a valid windows program or can’t find it.
3. Have uninstalled and reinstalled ROM drive drivers; installed a new drive; Uninstalled a couple of Roxio programs which were old installs; Uninstalled Mozilla Seamonkey suite 2.0.1 initially installed mid Nov 09 replacing Suite 1.1.18; Uninstalled Ad-Ware Pro and RegCure pro, both recent upgrade installs; Uninstalled and reinstalled Itunes 9 as an update from ver 7; tried System Restore which only went back to mid Dec 09. So far, nothing has corrected the problem.
4. After a reboot, I can use all my programs as long as I don’t activate a ROM drive.
5. Whether it has any affect or not, the dwwin.exe dll not loading error has appeared since one of MS’s updates a few months ago. Can’t find a ‘fix’ for that either.
6. I probably have the wrong phrasing because Windows Knowledge Base and WWW searches are worthless.
Has anyone has this problem and what was the fix short of re-installing everything?
Thank you.
