You can speed up your CD-ROM by telling Windows the drive is more capable than it really is. Right-click on My Computer and select Properties.  Click on the Performance tab, the File System button and then the CD-ROM tab. Move the Supplemental Cache Size sliding bar all the way to the right (toward
Large) and select "Quad-speed or higher" from the "Optimize access pattern for" drop-down menu, regardless of your particular drive's speed.  This tells Windows to create a larger cache for your CD, so it will run faster.