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re: Disabled autorun, now F5 won't refresh
Friday, June 9, 2006 at 7:48 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alex T
(1 messages posted)
Have the same problem: But I never stopped Autorun, so maybe it isn't linked. Anyone
solved this yet?
On Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 8:23 am, Flint wrote:
>OK, so I disabled AutoRun by using the Registry. Windows behaves now, it no longer
>tries to examine or run content on a CD.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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