CD Burner not showing up as burner in WMP

[Idontwantspam]

For some reason, Windows Media Player is not seeing my laptop's CD/DVD burner as a burner, meaning I can't burn media disks. I can reboot into XP to do this, but that's kind of a pain. Does anyone know of a solution for this?

[MCT]

this doesnt solve your WMP problem, but its an alternative solution.

what if u try another burning software? something like CDBurnerXP (free) or Nero (30 day trial)

theres MANY others too, but they r fairly popular alternatives

Possible Solution?

have you tried to upgrade your firmware? I found a thread saying it solved his problem

Edited November 2, 2008 by MCT

[Idontwantspam]

As it turns out, running WMP as administrator made it work. Apparently there's some restriction which prevents regular users from burning disks. I'd think it would give me a UAC prompt for that sort of thing, but apparently it just pretends there is no burner. At least I got it to work! Thanks for the suggestion though