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Optical drive is no longer visible after installing iTunes for Windows

If you are running Windows Vista, you may experience some of the following symptoms after installing iTunes for Windows: Your computer's optical drive may no longer be recognized The optical drive may not appear in My Computer, but may appear in Device Manager with a yellow "!" (exclamation mark) beside the optical drive The following dialog may appear when attempting to use the optical drive "This device cannot start: code 10, device type DVD/CD ROM Drive"

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os_type

os_type(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual						  os_type(3alleg4)

NAME

       os_type - Stores the detected type of the OS. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       extern int os_type;

DESCRIPTION

       Set by allegro_init() to one of the values:

	  OSTYPE_UNKNOWN    - unknown, or regular MSDOS
	  OSTYPE_WIN3	    - Windows 3.1 or earlier
	  OSTYPE_WIN95	    - Windows 95
	  OSTYPE_WIN98	    - Windows 98
	  OSTYPE_WINME	    - Windows ME
	  OSTYPE_WINNT	    - Windows NT
	  OSTYPE_WIN2000    - Windows 2000
	  OSTYPE_WINXP	    - Windows XP
	  OSTYPE_WIN2003    - Windows 2003
	  OSTYPE_WINVISTA   - Windows Vista
	  OSTYPE_OS2	    - OS/2
	  OSTYPE_WARP	    - OS/2 Warp 3
	  OSTYPE_DOSEMU     - Linux DOSEMU
	  OSTYPE_OPENDOS    - Caldera OpenDOS
	  OSTYPE_LINUX	    - Linux
	  OSTYPE_SUNOS	    - SunOS/Solaris
	  OSTYPE_FREEBSD    - FreeBSD
	  OSTYPE_NETBSD     - NetBSD
	  OSTYPE_IRIX	    - IRIX
	  OSTYPE_DARWIN     - Darwin
	  OSTYPE_QNX	    - QNX
	  OSTYPE_UNIX	    - Unknown Unix variant
	  OSTYPE_BEOS	    - BeOS
	  OSTYPE_MACOS	    - MacOS
	  OSTYPE_MACOSX     - MacOS X

SEE ALSO

       allegro_init(3alleg4), os_version(3alleg4), os_multitasking(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2						  os_type(3alleg4)

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