Disabled autorun, now F5 won't refresh
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 8:23 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Flint
(8 messages posted)
OK, so I disabled AutoRun by using the Registry. Windows behaves now, it no longer
tries to examine or run content on a CD.
However, Windows has decided to completely stop checking to see when a new CD has
been inserted. For example, if I open "My Computer" the window displays the volume
labels of whatever CD I had in my computer when I last rebooted. Pressing F5 does
nothing, whether there is no disc in the drive or if there is a different disc.
To make matters more annoying, last time I rebooted, I had a DVD movie in the drive.
Now whenever I double-click my DVD drive after inserting a non-DVD movie, my DVD
player launches and tries to play the disc! RA right click on the disc indeed reveals
that the "Play" option is still there and is still the default.
And to put another nail in the coffin, if I'm using my DVD player software, and take
the movie out and then insert a new movie, the DVD player presents an error. It's
trying to resume playback on the DVD I just removed - it doesn't realize I inserted
a new DVD! I end up having to quit and restart the player.
I've had this problem for years since moving to Win 2000. 2000 and XP are both doing
the same thing. I've also disabled autorun using TweakUI in the past and got the
same result - I think Tweak is simply modifying the registry, no?
It seems important that even if you disable autorun that there needs to be a way
to signal Windows that a new disc has been inserted. Solutions?
Thanks
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