I am seeing this on my Windows 7 Pro laptop

It is rather slow considering it is a quad core i5 with 8GB RAM

Is this related?

Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 16/06/2020 17:26:10
Event ID: 7026
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: %computername%
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
cdrom
Event Xml:



7026
0
2
0
0
0x8080000000000000

24295


System
%computername%




cdrom

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