Enable/Disable CD Burning in Windows XP

Contributed by technipages October 5, 2006  
Tagged: Windows installation

Enable or disable the Windows XP feature that allows you to burn CD’s using this registry hack.

Go to START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. This will open the registry editor. Find the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer]

Look for a key called “NoCDBurning”

If it does not exist, you can create a new DWORD value under the Explorer Folder by performing the following steps:

Click EDIT–>NEW–>DWORD VALUE

Name it “NoCDBurning” without quotes

Double click on “NoCDBurning” and you can set the value to “1″ to disable CD burning or set it to “0″ to enable it.