Control Panel - Multimedia - look for 'Digital CD playing' or
something like.

Believe it or not I found it. However it was already disabled. Go
figure, of course now I do remember doing a scanreg /restore recently.
.. . . . .and I used to have a lot older soundcard.

Thanks, at least now I know where the setting is, I looked all over in
system but it's obviously not there.

Anyway the reason I want to do this is for one, my machine is limited,
but I am using a primary connection to WinMX peer networks and this
uses resources. So much so that it makes MP3s skip, or more aptly put,
stick. After it's running awhile it vecomes quite a hog and even the
mouse locks up. This is about 100 ms, with about 800 ms in between when
I get frustrated enough to reboot. The thing is that the transfers are
happening and these are files I want.

So if I decide to burn a couple of regular audio CDs to play when I'm
DLing, they won't skip (stick that is).

I also overdub myself, usually on the guitar. I figured I'd burn a CD
of at least the percussion track, then I can play "with myself" (no
wise ass remarks please) :-)

Thanks again.

Now ALL I have to do is find an authentication free, region free DVD
ROM that is CD+G compatible. I'm seriously knocking on wood at this
point. I don't yet know that one even exists.

JURB