Computer Automatically Restarts After You Upgrade to Windows XP

After you upgrade your computer (with Easy CD Creator Platinum 5.02b and the DirectCD component installed) to Windows XP, you may experience one of the following symptoms:

• Your computer may automatically restart when you try to shut down.
• When you shut down your computer, you may receive the following error message on a blue screen:
  STOP 0x0000000A (0x000002DC, 0X000000FF, 0X00000000, 0X804E9D48)
  IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

This problem may occur if you are using a version of the DirectCD component of EZ CD Creator that is incompatible with Windows XP.

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To try to work around this issue:

1. If Easy CD Creator is still installed, uninstall it, or uninstall only the DirectCD component.
2. Rename the Udfreadr.sys and Cdudf.sys files that are located in the %Systemroot%\System32\Drivers folder to Udfreadr.old and Cdudf.old. File properties:
   Udfreadr.sys, 23-Oct-01, 5.0.2.155
   Cdudf.sys, 11-Jan-01, 5.0.2.155
   NOTE: These files may have already been removed by the uninstaller program for Easy CD Creator.
3. Delete the following registry keys:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UdfReadr
   
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\cdudf
4. Restart your computer.

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