Computer Question: CD/DVD and AOL Favorites

My new (this June) computer has developed a quirk: When I go online, with AOL, and pull out the Favorites drop-down menu, and select a site, I hear the sound effect Windows uses for “critical stop” unless there is a CD or a DVD in the D: drive. A dialog box on the screen tells me to put a disc in the drive. Why does it do this? :confused:

The program you are running is looking to the CD drive for some data. When it doesn’t find it it gets pissy.

Why is it looking there? I have no idea. Perhaps during your install you told it to run from the CD (just guessing and it is rare but I have seen some installs which allow you to opt to run from the CD rather than moving the program entirely to your PC).

If I were you I would delete the program and download the latest version online and install from that.

Hopefully that will sort your problem.

ETA: AOL sucks…as a matter of principle you should chuck it.