"DirectCD Drivers Disabled" error on starting XP

Every time I load up XP, an error speech bubble flashes up and an icon appears in the tray at the right-hand end of my task bar along with all the other icons. The error message says:

"Devices or applications disabled
DirectCD will cause Windows to become unstable. Windows has prevented these drivers from loading. Click here for more information."

When I click on the bubble, a help window appears directing me to a URL, which it says will allow me to update the drivers in question. When I click on the link, it takes me to the Roxio website and a page advertising a new version of their cd creating package.

I have a partitioned hard drive and Roxio Easy CD creator is installed on the part formatted with Windows 98. I can't and don't use it on XP. I have, however, made a drag and drop rewriteable cd, which we did (a long time ago) insert and try to use on XP once. We tried to install the necessary software which the rewriteable disk said it needed to function on XP, but we got an error message saying that the software was incompatible with XP or something like that. (This all happened several years ago so I'm sorry if my memory's a little fuzzy!)

Anyway, there have been no problems until recently and to my knowledge, no one has tried to do anything more with the cd or with Roxio using the XP formatted part of the hard drive. I don't know what this error message means or how to get rid of it. I have searched for "DirectCD" on my hard drives and all I can find are the files on my C:\ drive (Windows 98 formatted) where Roxio Easy CD creator is installed.

I doubt this is a very serious problem but it's certainly getting very annoying and any help that anyone can offer me would be very much appreciated. I've attached a report made by Aida32, as suggested in the Driver Announcement thread (http://forums.majorgeeks.com/announcement.php?f=23) and hope this gives the required technical information.

 

Yes, it is version 5.

I've tried downloading the update, following that link. I can't get it to work. It times out once I've confirmed that I do want to proceed with the download, even though it is going to uninstall Take Two from my system.

I have the added complication that I can't seem to get the internet to work on the Windows 98 formatted part of the hard drive. I have a Speedtouch USB modem and DSL Broadband but, although everthing seems to install fine once I've connected to the internet, nothing will load. Speedtouch's self-diagnosing problem-fixing program tells me that there's something wrong with the PPP controls (and I'm not at all sure what that means) and that I should disconnect and reconnect to fix the problem. Needless to say, that doesn't fix the problem.

What I don't understand is how a program I have installed on the Windows 98 part of my computer is causing problems on the XP part of it, when XP shouldn't even be trying to access it!

 

Have done the above. There are no Roxio products on the start up list. Just my anti-virus, my firewall, the software for my modem, and that for my printer, MSN and something called Ctfmon.exe.

 

Go through this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];q314060

Then try this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/

See if it shows up with this utility, and remove it.

 

Thank you, both!

I have uninstalled UDF reader and the driver error bubble does not appear on start up any more. We don't need to use the drag and drop cd with XP so I haven't installed UDF reader v.7, but I've bookmarked the link to it in case I ever need to.

I've read through both the Microsoft Support URLs. I don't get any of the errors mentioned in the first one so should I still go through and delete those registry entries? I've not had any problems uninstalling the UDF reader so do I still need to download the Windows Installer CleanUp tool?

 

Well you know what they say. If it aint broke, don't fix it. If your cd writer works fine, then fuggeddaboudit.