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Hi guys! I'm new to this forum so bear with me;

Recently I uninstalled a program, and I wish to reload it - When I attempted this, the CD did not AutoPlay. I thought this strange, but proceeded anyway to explore the CD and set it up myself. But this did not work either, and I could not load any of the shortcuts or icons on the CD. I tried this on both drives and even mounted it on an image drive after burning an image to no avail.

I've used many other technical advice, but none seem to work in my case.
So far I've:

Edited the registry so its "perfect", but I may have missed something.
Created and Mounted an image of the CD and it still didnt work.
Tried the CD on two other home PC's, still no luck.
Tried other CDs, and experienced the same problem - although a blank CD/DVD can be read as a blank CD/DVD. I haven't experimented too much with this, though.

Much help would be appreciated greatly! I'm usually fairly good at this but I fear I'll wreck my poor PC trying out other methods.

Oh, and my OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP3

(As a side note, my Windows Disk Defrag won't let me defrag my C:\ drive but my partitioned back up drive is fine - I used an external one, which worked, but would like microsoft's one working as well. It said "Disk Defragmenter could not start" Thanks again!)