XPonElmStreet

Thanks for the 2 replies. Last one 1st - I have tried the F5 key in Windows Explorer and the refresh key in Salamander. No change to what is displayed. The DVDs don't get corrupted. They are readable when I fianlly get to access them. I have used Nero to burn an usable disk and sometimes that clears the contents down. When I put a DVD into the DVD ROM drive the DVD player still displays the old contents. I have googled this problem over the months and I am not alone in this matter. All that Micros**t can offer is pressing the F5 key. The drive claims to be a pioneer so I'll try their website. Thanks for suggestions.

When I change a DVD I cannot get Windows XP to recognise the contents of the new DVD. The last successful read is always displayed. It is not a bug in Windows Explorer since I have not used that for several months. Instead, I use Servant Salamander, which does not force me to reboot my PC when it crashes, like Explorer did. The contents of the DVD seem to be stored in a registry of some sort, since, even when a new DVD is in the drive the first few seconds (20 seconds in the case of the first file) of the files displayed is played when I use VLC player to play the files. This means that more than the file title is kept by XP. Instead of hyping up the new operating system I wish Microsoft would get the major bugs out of XP. For Windows Explorer not being able to read what is on a DVD counts as a major bug in my eyes. In case I did not make myself clear before, this problem also occurs in Windows Explorer.