re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Friday, June 6, 2003 at 9:23 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Daniel Modini
(1 messages posted)
I had the same problem win NT 4.
Please read this tip, perhaps can help in Win2k too:
http://www.rdisruption.com/nt/nt0006.htm
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 6:46 pm, Ron Hackett wrote:
>I have a question about Turn
>Off the CD-ROM Autorun:
>I use Win2K and was quite happy on 98 to set CD notification on and Autostart off.
>In 2000 I find many CDs automatically start up "some i386 protected mode high colour
>high res DOS front end" which obviously crashes the NT kernal a treat, or virtual
>machines a plenty and the host all fire up the same blasted CD front end which was
>only actually intended for one system.
>
But if I disable Autorun by any documented method for 2000 I don't get CD insert
>notification in f.e. my Mac emulator which means I have to tab out of the emulator
>open "My Computer" and refresh the display, I don't get notification on my drive
>bar at the top of the screen as to "Which CD drive" I actually inserted the disc
>leading to much annoyance of clicking the wrong CD drive icon and getting numerous
>message boxes asking me to insert a cd in that drive, and multiple disc full screen
>installations which dont have a button for "OK I have given you the next CD" sit
>there forever waiting for windows to acknolege the change of disk, or untill I can
>find some way of getting an explorer window to refresh the CD with an infernal fullscreen
>always on top window in my way.
> Any ideas, as most of the suggestions seem directed at 9x or XP systems?
>
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