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re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read!
Friday, October 18, 2002 at 10:50 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by skoob
(237 messages posted)
I'm going to bet you also went to safe mode, uninstalled the cdrom drivers in device
manager, rebooted, and let Windows redetect/reinstalled the drivers.
I'm also going to bet you checked the properties of the secondary IDE channel (IDE/ATAPI
devices) in device manager.
Oh, and I'm sure you also tried cold-booting to a cd (OS, Restore?) from a shut down
state...right?
OK, if none of that worked, just for kicks, try resetting your BIOS defaults (kinda
hokey, I know). Since you've already proved it ain't the cd's, the other options
are the CD drive itself, or Windows. I'm leaning toward Windows. Just a guess,
though.
Hope this helps.
On Friday, October 18, 2002 at 9:42 pm, John N. Shaw wrote:
>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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