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Since purchasing a new laptop loaded with Vista, I’ve had a small issue. Every time I try to read a CDRom, a helpful window is desplayed, Prepare this blank disc and it provides options for a live file system. The Burn a Disc window title is unnerving too.

This would be wonderful, assuming the disc wasn’t already full.

I’ve searched and searched MS and google for a solution. None have worked so far. I’ve attempted hacking the registry. No joy.

The only non-standard thing that I’ve done is to make this drive letter Z: – it’s a system admin thing to know that Z: is always the CDROM/DVD player.

This is outside VirtualBox, at the host OS level.

Solution

So the answer was to place a file – any file – in to the C:\Users\{USERID}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn\Burn directory. There was a “desktop.ini” file already there, but that was worthless for this issue.
Others have noted that enabling autorun would also correct this error, but that is simply stupid and Microsoft should know better.
This solutions isn’t 100% since there’s a nag bubble above the system tray reminding me that I have unburned files. Gee, that’s useful. Thanks again MS.