Access to removalable media

[Oracle_Student]

  Has anyone else experienced this problem:
After starting up windows XP home edition, My computer or windows explorer will not recognise CD, DVD or USB flash drives unless they are plugged in/loaded in the drive on windows starting.

I have to restart windows for them to be recognised.

I have AVG free antivirus and zonelabs Zonealarm firewall.

Any suggestions - this has been an ongoing problem for sometime but wasnt always like this and I have run out of ideas.

[merlin_2]

Try the reg patch>>cdgone....>http://aumha.org/regfiles.htm

also check bios settings for pnp.......devices..or the device/manager....

What does the event viewer log report??control/panel/admin tools//event viewer