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Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 2:37 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David McKen
(3 messages posted)
An interesting thing happens when I turn off autorun (be it manually or my cd-burning
software turns it off for me). Sometimes I will change cds and windows will still
think that the previous cd is still in the drive.
As such games will refuse to run as they cannot find the files they want ('dir will still show the files that are on the old cd). The interesting thing is
that I can actually open explorer and browse the old cd as if it was still in the
drive. I can even double-click to open the file and nothing will hint at a problem
until the program starts up and says the file is damaged (I am guessing it is reading
the data located at the same location on the new cd and interpreting it as the data
on the old cd).
Right now the only solution I have is to eject the cd by right-clicking on the icon
in "My Computer" and then refreshing my computer to make sure that windows recognizes
that there is no cd in the drive and then insert the new cd. Once I do that I just
refresh "my computer" again and the correct cd will show up.
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