re: Win 2000 CD Player Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 8:02 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Sean ONeal (2 messages posted) You've got two options that I can think of. Which is preferable for you depends on what kind of result you really want. If you just want Windows to use a different CD player then all you need to do is change the file association so that it plays CDs using your prefered player instead of windows built in player. If you don't know how to do it, check the windows help file, it's not hard to do. (Music files on CDs btw are CDA files.) If you just want it to stop autoplaying CDs completely, then you'll need to disable the autorun feature. Just follow this link (on this site) for info on how to do that. http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-018 Unfortunately option B has a drawback. In Win2k, CD autorun and CD autodetection are the same thing (which is bad). What this means is when you play a CD, then change it to a new one, your CD player (whatever you use) will not detect the new CD and will have problems when you try to play it. To get around this you will either have to shut down and restart the CD player software or use windows explorer to refresh the CD drive... which only works some of the time. It's very annoying if you play CDs on your computer a lot, I've sorta gotten used to it (it still beats upgrading to XP and dealing with all it's annoyances IMHO). Good luck On Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 6:55 am, andrew haskins wrote: >Is there any way of disabling the CD player in Win 2000. Each time I load a cd it >launches the player. I have deleted the CD Player.exe from the system folder and >the recycled bin yet it always comes back to annoy me. Please help. Written in response to: Win 2000 CD Player (andrew haskins: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 6:55 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Win 2000 CD Player (andrew haskins: Wed, Feb 13, 2002, 6:55 am) re: Win 2000 CD Player (jerome: Wed, Feb 13, 2002, 8:12 am) re: Win 2000 CD Player (Paige Graham: Fri, Jun 20, 2003, 8:18 pm) re: Win 2000 CD Player (Curt R: Wed, Feb 13, 2002, 8:13 am) re: Win 2000 CD Player (Sean ONeal: Wed, Feb 13, 2002, 8:02 pm) re: Win 2000 CD Player (o tempora: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 6:29 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum