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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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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