Running W2K Pro. When I insert a music CD into my CDROM, it comes up with this error message: "Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied." This used to work. It would simply launch the default CD player that comes with W2K. How can I restore this? TIA

If you insert an audio CD after you install and then uninstall a third-party audio CD player using Add/Remove Programs, Win2K might not play the CD automatically and might instead respond with the error message, "Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied." Some third-party drivers modify the path that defines the program that plays CDs. When you remove the driver, the removal procedure doesn't correctly restore the CD path setting. To restore the CD autorun feature, you must manually edit a system .inf file and remove and reinstall the Win2K multimedia component. To see the system .inf file, you must disable the Hide System Files option in Windows Explorer. Go to %SystemRoot%\Inf\, open sysoc.inf in Notepad, and, in the Old Base Components section, change the line MultiM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,multimed.inf,HIDE,7 to MultiM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,multimed.inf,7 Next, locate the line AccessUtil=" and remove the "Hide" comment. If you leave this option hidden, none of the other components in the Old Base Components section will appear in the Add/Remove Programs tool. Save and close sysoc.inf. Then remove and reinstall the Win2K multimedia components and reboot. Microsoft Support Online article Q259473 documents the steps you follow to restore CD player functionality.

I have the same problem described by TIA and I've also tried what you suggest (Microsoft) and nothing ... I still can't play audio cd. Any other suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks in advance ...