I am having problems with my computer. i am running win 98se, 1Gb amd chip and 30Gb hard drive.
I have been using an external CD burner for several years..Acer 4406 eu.

Over the last week I have been having problems with burning Cds..the whole system hangs after say 65% of the disc is burned..the system continues to hang after ctrl alt del..quite often the dialog box of programs running shows" msgsrv32 is not responding"..switching off the burner does not help either.
today the burner started asking me to ensure that I had loaded a blank disc with sufficient space..i had, checked this prob with a new disc of different brand..same warning..HANGING again etc etc. i have tried uninstalling the software ..easy Cd creator ver 4 and direct CD 3....uninstalling the drive and reinstalling.  all to no avail. The driver has infact gone into C\windows\system\iosubsys...and the drive does not show up in the device manager.
I installed the burner onto my laptop..all seemed well until  tried burning a Cd.."insert disc with sufficient space"etc, so I think that the burner is dished.

I ran system file checker and dr WATSON and got the messages below.


System file checker identified that the following file may be corrupted

file        user.exe
location      C:\WINDOWS SYSTEM
and
FILE   setupx.dll

location      C:\WINDOWS SYSTEM


Then, after running Dr watson

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Adobe Type Manager has altered Windows system FILES.

Module Name: ATMSYS.DRV
Description: Adobe Type Manager
Version: R v4.00-32S058G06NN
Product: Adobe Type Manager
Manufacturer: Adobe Systems Incorporated

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has altered Windows system files.

Module Name:


Is this a separate issue?  I have recenly installed spybot. My anti virus software is norton AV 2005..always up to date.

Finally i do not have an OS disc..just the system recovery disc..no copies,..all OS is legit
I am fairly computerate, but the world of registry backup, restoration ,reg EDIT and scan reg etc are very new     tasks for me.

thanks for help
alan
So we have a puzzle........it must be the cd burner!.......thanks..thats what I think..but the other concerns..corrupt files etc?
nala