Nicotine film?   You smoke?   I never knew that.

One of the burn-it outfits (Roxio?) just got out of the business and into
something else, I forget what.  

> From: Dave 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:38:04 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote in
> message :
> | > I tried putting the CD/RW drive in it again yesterday, but couldn't
> | > get the DVD drive out, it was stuck.  Then I noticed a screw in a hole
> | > where my other Thinkpad has no screw, and I realized -- it's a lock
> | > screw to prevent swapping Ultrabay devices.  The repair depot put in
> | > the extra lock screw when they re-assembled my system after replacing
> | > the motherboard.  I wonder if it was deliberate...  ???
> |
> | I would call them and ask, sure sounds like a bugfix to me .
> Nah, I just pulled the setscrew out, stuck the CD-RW drive in, and
> installed EasyCD Creator.
> With EZCD 5, if you don't install the patch IMMEDIATELY after
> installing the original version, before rebooting, EZCD will mess with
> the CD driver in XP and the drive may disappear from Device Manager.
> You can change "may" to "will" if you install DirectCD.
> My old Thinkpad has been behaving perfectly for the past month, so I'm
> going to leave the "new" one, just back from its trip to IBM service,
> at home until the old one starts messing up again.  It's a shock to
> see the two systems side by side, one of them dusty and with a
> nicotine film, and the other spotless and new looking.

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