Vista tip: How to turn off built-in CD burning utility

January 30, 2009

Since most computers come with 3rd party programs that are easier to use than Windows Vista's CD / DVD burning build-in utility, you can turn this off with a simple registry edit and with that increase speed of your computer. To turn off Windows Vista built-in CD Burning follow next steps: Start Regedit Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer Create a new DWORD key NoCDBurning Give it a value of 1 Reboot