Thank you @oggy for your reply. I've been reading a lot of threads on other forums recently, and these appear to be the three main sorting principles...
You have something which is removing dBpoweramp from the system. CD Ripper would not remove its self from the computer, only security software might...
Bitdefender (yet again), it has appeared on this list so many more times than other security software. This time it is detecting .bin .tmp .lnk files...
Which Windows version are you using? I.e. I couldn't find a cdplayer.ini on any of my Windows 10 systems. I'm of the opinion that ini files vanished...