You can make your computer pretend not to have a DVD drive. The following tweak is useful if, say, you have kids at home and you don’t want them to play DVDs on the computer. Or, you have a large CD/DVD collection, you’re away from home, and you don’t want your friends messing with your collection. Navigate to:
HCU\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Settings
The value name of interest here is EnableDVDUI. It should be a String Value (REG_SZ). Create it if it’s not there, or modify it according to what you want. “No” will disable the drive, and “Yes” will enable it. A reboot is required for the changes to take effect. This hack has been found not to work on some systems, so you’ll just have to take pot luck. If it doesn’t work, just delete the value (EnableDVDUI) you created!
