Fake notification of burning files

Question

There are no files in my dvd drive still it gives me fake notification of there are file waiting to be burned.

And when I click on the notification it shows me this window.

I have LG DVD writer and I am using Windows Vista Home Edition.

Answer 1

When you drag and drop some files into a CD drive in Explorer, they aren't burned immediately -- instead Windows saves a copy in a CD Burning cache folder hidden deep inside Local Application Data. (This is because direct writing requires special software.)

In Windows Vista, the cache folder is*:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\CD Burning

%USERPROFILE% will be autoreplaced with your user profile (C:\Users\Searock).

If there are any files in that folder, remove them.

---

* Should be. I haven't upgraded from XP yet, so I had to google out the path.

Answer 2

Try enabling hidden files. I suspect that there may be some in there, but they are just not visible.