So you're lonely, it's late, and all you want is a companion.  So you dig out your old Michael Bolton CD, he always comforts you.  Today will be no exception.

You place the CD in to the CD-ROM, CD-WR, DVD-ROM, or DVD+-RW of your Windows XP or Vista computer, and wait for the magic to happen.  Waiting, waiting, wai...  WHAT THE £µ(|≤?!?!?!?!  WHY DO I HAVE NO MUSIC?

So you look in My Computer, or Computer in Vista, and there is no CD/DVD drive.  Why me?  Why now?

So now you check the Device Manager by going to Control Panels, then System, then Hardware and you see your optical drive has blasted little  yellow exclamation point next to it.  You double click it, and it says something like "Error Code 39" inside.  Or "Windows cannot load the device driver for theis hardware.  The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"

Fret not, my friend, for the solution is near.

Hit Start, then Run, and type in regedit and press Enter.
Drill down by hitting the (+) plus signs next to:
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
+SYSTEM
+CurrentControlSet
+Control
+Class
+{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

If you see any of the following on the right side, right click and Delete them:
-UpperFilters
LowerFilters
UpperFilters.bak
LowerFilters.bak

Close the Registry Editor
Reboot your PC
Enjoy your Michael Bolton CD