BTW, I am also using a Pioneer. However, this is a Blu-ray / DVD ROM drive.
The DVD ROM drive is appearing now when I put in a disc, but it takes 15 seconds to do so.
I do have AutoPlay turned off in GPEdit.msc in Windows Components. I thought that was it and changed it back to not configured. It did not make any difference, so I put it back.
File Explorer does the same and takes 15 seconds.
In Preferences / Folder Tree / Contents / Empty disk drives, I checked that. Even though the drive now shows, the content of a DVD still takes 10 to 15 seconds to show. I think this is normal to be slow. Working in modern solid state drives makes you impatient .