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It's a reg thing but none of these worked
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by stuartjk
(1 messages posted)
I've been through all of these settings and none of them worked. As a last resort,
I restored my registry to 3 weeks ago (i've installed some stuff since then so was
reluctant to do it). This fixed the problem and in fact sped up my machine somewhat.
I have made no software changes today, however this issue happened at 7.30 this evening.
I stuck a cd in (wind98 I think for a virtual machine), and when I ejected the disk,
the image on my computer did not update.
I rebooted the machine and then when I placed subsequent discs in, the image would
not update in My Computer again. It stated DVD/CD Drive (D:).
It is almost as if the update on CD's is being affected somehow.
New plan, back up registry every week. That could be a good general rule anyway
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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