Visual Studio 2008 DVD Freezes PC

I've been spending the past day trying to install Visual Studio 2008 on my work pc (with Windows XP SP 2). Everytime I put in the VS2008 DVD, Windows Explorer freezes up and I cannot kill the process through the Task Manager. Eventually the whole OS freezes and I have to do a hard reboot to get it going again.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers for the DVD writer - it did not work.

Technical support came and installed a new DVD writer in my pc. We tested it with a DVD (not the VS2008 one) and it worked fine. After the guy left I put in the VS2008 DVD and I had the same trouble over again.

So, I found this thread on a forum and it had the solution to my problem. In short:

1. Right-click on the DVD drive
2. Select Properties
3. Goto the DLA tab
4. Uncheck "Enable DLA on your drives"
   

I have Sonic installed on my pc and with that you get the DLA (Drive Letter Access) feature.

When I disabled it, my troubles were over.