[totem]

After installing several programs, including Vegas v7.0d and its Media Manager, on Windows Vista Business, suddenly
I noticed Vista's icon for Sync Center running by the taskbar clock, and a virtual drive also appeared in My Computer labeled CD Drive. The info in this virtual drive's properties show that its ID is the same as my C drive, on which my operating system is on. However, if you open it there is nothing there.
On opening the Sync Center from a right click on the icon, it shows the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 running. Beneath that it shows Sync Setup and a folder within it is labeled Offline files, Network files available offline, as seen in the images below.

I uninstalled all the programs, including Vegas, but the virtual CD Drive and the Sync Center icon are still there.
My system is running OK, but, I didn't ask for those things. Can you please tell me how I can get rid of them?

Thanks

[_Shorty]

I've got this same problem, pretty annoying. I'll post here again if I figure it out. Or hopefully someone else here has an answer that'll come quicker, hehe.

[_Shorty]

well, that was easy. I just searched for Microsoft SQL Server in the registry, since that was the beginning of the name in the Sync Center. Found this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SyncMgr\Handle rs

Go there and find the one (probably only two there, or else you would have had Sync Center showing up before, too) that says Microsoft SQL Server and delete that branch. If it makes you feel safer, export the branch before you delete it in case you want to restore it. But, after deleting that branch the Sync Center icon will go away. Mine was called this:

{08b0b2d5-3fb3-11d3-a4de-00c04f610189}

And I imagine yours will be, too.

[uhaligani]

I do not have it running, but I beleieve you can also do it by selecting "offline files" in the Control Panel and disabling "Sync center"

[bmh67wa]

Thank you uhaligani! You are my new hero! This has been bugging me for a few days now and your fix did the trick.

[becketthoworth]

Thank you so much _Shorty!!!! I've been reading posts all over the Web on how to fix this issue and they either were incomplete or just plain didn't work. Your solution took about 1 minute and it was fixed. Thanks again, keep up the good work!