AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read!
Friday, October 18, 2002 at 9:42 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John N. Shaw
(6 messages posted)
I found the following article (and this website) searching for help but to no avail
Turn
Off the CD-ROM Autorun:
Perhaps someone can help me, as you know I cannot get the autorun feature to work
on my XP Pro machine. I cannot try system restore because I do not know when the
problem started, but the more I think about it the more I'm convinced it was 6 months
ago or more (because I typically disable autorun on a fresh install.) Recently,
I need it enabled to test an autorun.inf for a cd I am creating with some specialized
software.
By the way, autorun does seem to work for a USB hard disk that I have, but not for
my CD-ROM drives nor will it work for a floppy drive (of course after I edited a
registry setting to enable floppy autorun support.)
Here is what I've tried:
1. My Computer > Right Click CD-ROM Drive > Properties > AutoPlay
2. Device Manager > Properties of CD-ROM Drive (no option in those pages as with
previous Windows versions.)
3. Regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom > Autorun
REG_DWORD value is enabled (set to 1)
4. Regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom > AutorunAlwaysDisable
REG_MULTI_SZ value does not list my CD-ROMs in the list nor does it list any similar
drive types (this is correct)
5. Regedit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
> the NoDriveAutoRun REG_BINARY value is set to all 0's.
6. Regedit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
> I reset the NoDriveTypeAutoRun REG_DWORD value back to it's default of hex 95 (149
decimal).
7. Tried TweakUI on a whim, it says that autorun is enabled.
8. Consulted wall with head. Wall didn't have an answer. Head hurt.
What am I missing?!
One more slight observation: Windows does read the autorun.inf on cd's, but will
not execute the program with the open= statement. I know that Windows sees the autorun.inf
because it's reading the icon= statement and showing the icon on the CD that is specified,
instead of the default drive icon (in My Computer.)
Also before anyone asks, I have tried this with multiple CD's that I know for a fact
autorun works on (because I've tried them on my other box) even tried one of those
irritating AOL CD's that I comes in the mail and I usually throw away. I would just
use my other box to test my autorun.inf (well ok, I am doing just that) but I want
to know why I can't get it to work on *this* box, I don't like having a problem that
doesn't seem to have a solution.
Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks ahead of time!
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