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re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 9:34 pm
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Posted by jcw (5100 messages posted)


Tried applying WinXP-Solution 1 in Article 03-018 to have auto-run work for musical CDs but to take no action for the others?


On Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 9:02 pm, Algae wrote:
>I have a question about Turn
>Off the CD-ROM Autorun
:


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>
>As far as I can see tweakui does not really fix this annoyance for me. All I want
>to turn off is autorun for executables (e.g. game discs like Civ III or Europa Universalis)
>because I am likely to be invoking them from an icon (in some cases giving me tailored
>entry to the game). I'm quite happy to let autorun start up a music CD as this is
>almost always why I will be loading it. But tweakui is kind of all or nothing and
>the menu options in XP allow tuning for every other kind of CD than the simple executable.
>So I'm back to using the shift key. But how annoying is that, to have to time how
>long to hold it down instead of getting on with your life?


Written in response to:
Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 9:02 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 11:03 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Sun, Sep 28, 2003, 9:02 pm)
-re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (jcw: Sun, Sep 28, 2003, 9:34 pm)
-re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Sun, Sep 28, 2003, 11:03 pm)
-re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (jcw: Mon, Sep 29, 2003, 1:47 pm)
-re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Mon, Sep 29, 2003, 9:34 pm)
-re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (David Balažic: Mon, Aug 2, 2004, 5:39 am)
-re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Wed, Aug 4, 2004, 10:32 am)
*re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (David Balažic: Wed, Aug 4, 2004, 1:52 pm)
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