Disable Windows Vista’s Built-in CD/DVD Burning Features

Open regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

On the right-hand pane create a new 32-bit DWORD value with these properties:

  • Name: NoCDBurning
  • Value: 1

You’ll have to logout and back in to see the changes. To remove, just delete the key or change the value to 0.


One Response to “Disable Windows Vista’s Built-in CD/DVD Burning Features”

  1. whyamistilltyping Says:

    Interesting tip! I had no option but to use Vista’s built in CD/DVD burning feature yesterday and I must say I was impressed. It was noticably better than XP’s implementation.


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