@ dr-white,
Perchance have you insure that you don’t have any invasive programs running in the background like Anti-Virus, SpyWare Checking programs, and/or packet writing programs?
You would be surprised at all the unnecessary things that are automatically started during StartUp booting that you are unaware of. Some of these item loaded at start up could quite possibly be quarrying you DVD Optical Burner.
To check on what is actually running at start up go to Start/Run and then type “MSCONFIG†minus the quotation marks and the click on “OKâ€. System Configuration Utility will appear and click on the “StartUp†tab. A list of all the programs that are loaded upon start up will appear. Many of the item that are listed are in fact are not need. To obtain information on exactly what items are actually require at start up can be found at the below links.
http://www.schoolkit.com/kb/article.aspx?id=10016
To view a very intensive listing of StartUp item descriptions can be obtained at the below link.
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
Best Regards,
bjkg