RESOLVED - Explorer shows hidden partitions - RESOLVED

This is an update on an earlier post.

I found some info searching archives at ROXIO forum. Other ROXIO users had

similar problems.

MY PROBLEM: After installing/uninstalling EZ CD-DVD Creator 6 on my XP

Home System, all of the 'hidden' type partitions on my HD were being listed

in Windows Explorer - which never happened before. The solution I found in

the ROXIO forum is to use XP's MOUNTVOL utility to remove 'mount points'.

It works. GREAT ! However this solution actually seems like a klooodge. I

still have some lingering questions.

I mentioned previously that there is a 'MountedDevices' registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

that has two types of entries, as follows:

1) entries containing the word 'Volume' followed by a hex number.

2) entries containing the word '\DosDevices\' followed by a drive letter.

Type 1 entries correspond to partitions listed in the 'disk management'

utility

Type 2 entries correspond to volumes listed in Explorer

Hidden volumes will have a Type 1 entry but should not have a Type 2 entry.

At least that's how it looks to me - however my system is broken, so maybe

I'm getting the wrong idea.

When I perform the MOUNTVOL klooodge a new type of entry (Type 3) appears in

the 'MountedDevices' key:

Type 3 entries consist of a '#' sign followed by a hex number.

Type 3 entries correspond to mount points that I removed using MOUNTVOL.

I never paid attention before my problem started, but maybe 'MountedDevices'

had all 3 kinds of entries before this problem started. Maybe I lost the

Type 3 entries when the system got broken - and now I have to use MOUNTVOL.

QUESTION 1: does anybody have all three kinds of entries in

'MounterDevices' ? Have you used MOUNTVOL ?

QUESTION 2: where in XP are the decisions being made that control which

entries get put in 'MountedDevices' ?

I would like to find that place and fix the problem there - instead of using

this MOUNTVOL kloodge.

Thanks in advance.

Bill S.