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#158 Classic Shell makes DVD drives malfunction
It's taken me years to find the source of this problem, as CS has always been the first thing I install in Win7 as I dislike the new interface so much and I never suspected CS could be the problem!
With CS installed I'm unable to use my DVD drives. When I try and access a disc, it just chugs away like mad and take ages to open a folder and even longer to load the icons. I have to give up and eject the disc in the end to stop it.
I confirmed that CS is the problem by taking a clean Win7 x64 Ultimate VHD where the drives were working fine and installing CS. Straight after that, the drives started acting as described. Uninstalling CS restored them to normal. I then booted into my normal Win7 x64 Ultimate and uninstalled CS and after a reboot the drives were working normally as well.
I really hope this can be fixed as I rely on CS to make Win7 tolerable!
Can you run some tests and see which component or setting is causing the problem?
Hi
It the ExplorerBHO Class that's the problem. It's OK with just Classic Explorer Bar enabled (I didn't install the Classic IE9 addon).
Can you see if a particular setting is the cause? the BHO has a bunch of functions. The most likely cuprits are in the Status Bar and the Navigation Pane tabs.
I haven't been able to find a setting that makes any difference. I've unticked the three boxes under Status Bar, under Navigation Pane set style to Vista (was on XP Simple), scrollbar is Default, Auto-Navigate is Default and everything else is unticked.
EDIT: That's curious. I set style to XP Classic and scrollbar to disabled and it seemed to fix it and putting the settings back to XP Simple or Vista and scrollbar Default or Enabled doesn't seem to bring the problem back. I guess it's possible it's cached the disc's directories now and doesn't need to read them as much. I'll test again with another disc after rebooting.
OK, it seems to be Horizontal Scrollbar that's the problem. After rebooting with it on XP Simple and scrollbar Default it was not working again, then I set scrollbar to Disabled and it's OK again. Ticked the three Status Bar tweaks and it's still OK.
Thanks for the pointers. I'm very happy that I don't have to do without Classic Shell :)
Actually that wasn't quite enough. After rebooting again, even with scrollbar still Disabled it was not working again. I set style to XP Simple and now it's OK again. I'll see if it remains OK after another reboot.