How to solve the problem of Win7 CD-ROM icon disappearing

CD-ROM can be used for CD-ROM reading, although most people now use mobile disk, but when you buy a computer, it will still be equipped with CD-ROM, Win7 system users are reading CD-ROM At that time, I found that the CD-ROM icon disappeared, and I couldn't find it. The driver installation is still the same. How to deal with this problem?

Reason analysis:

First, in most cases, the CD-ROM drive of our computer is gone, it may be caused by improper installation of the driver. We usually see it in the device manager. The optical drive device only has an exclamation point on it. At this time, we only need to download and install the corresponding CD-ROM drive to solve it.

Second, for the friend recently encountered, in the device management can not find the optical drive device, usually only two possibilities:

1, the optical drive is broken or the internal optical drive cable is loose ;

For this situation, the author's friends can be excluded here, so the CD-ROM drive is good on the XP system, can not change the Win7 system CD-ROM drive is broken, can be used before, indicating that the internal connection is no problem.

Solution:

1. Click on the “Start” menu in the lower left corner of the computer, enter “ldedit” in the run bar, then press Enter to open the registry;

2, the registry sequentially locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SYSTEM - CurrentControlSet - Control - Class - {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318};

3, After selecting the registry value of {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}, find UpperFilters and LowerFilters in the right window, right click to delete;

4, close the registry after deleting, and then log out or Restart your computer.

The above is the solution to the disappearance of the Win7 CD-ROM icon. You can't run the CD without the CD-ROM icon. To avoid such troubles, you can use the method in this article to perform related operations.