FiXED!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, October 19, 2002 at 2:42 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John N. Shaw
(6 messages posted)
problem solved!
I didn't even think to search for other instances other than the documented locations...
grr, all that frustration could have been averted had I just thought to check for
duplicate keys.................
I had one wicked looking key under HKEY_USERS\ with the NoDriveTypeAutoRun option,
(not normally there!) set to b5 hex, ((which disables cdrom))
now I'd like to know what put it there ... lol
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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