re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 5:29 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Peter (1 messages posted) Hi , hope this is not too late . I had the same problem "Windows autoplays any CD into an explorer window but does not read the autorun.inf file instructions" . After trying the stuff mentioned over this page (which is a real encyclopedia on the subject) , the solution was so unusual . I had a string in the registry placed in ([HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf] , with the value :@="@SYS:DoesNotExist") . I deleted the autorun.inf key and the machine was back to normal. Now I am not sure about what is normal ! Although I am CONCLUSIVE that this key should not be there (having compared with other machines), it is really an incridible measure to kill any autorun.inf spread from any device (CD or USB) attached to the machine ! Any way , CDs are autoplaying now. I hope this will help. Peter On Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 6:31 am, Stuart wrote: >Hi >Well after reading this thread, this area really is a minefield. >I started with this a couple of weeks ago when I wanted to play an audio CD and discovered >that rather then just autoplaying, which it previously had done sometime in the past, >a folder window opened with the CD's file contents (.cda files in this case). > Written in response to: re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Stuart: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 6:31 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (John N. Shaw: Fri, Oct 18, 2002, 9:42 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (John N. Shaw: Fri, Oct 18, 2002, 10:21 pm) A friendly thanks for all the info here (Mike: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 3:18 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (skoob: Fri, Oct 18, 2002, 10:50 pm) still no luck (John N. Shaw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 5:33 am) re: still no luck (wguru: Mon, Apr 24, 2006, 12:55 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (jcw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 12:16 am) still no luck (John N. Shaw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 5:28 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (HC: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 1:21 am) still no luck (John N. Shaw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 5:52 am) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Paul TW: Tue, Jul 22, 2003, 11:13 am) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Chris: Mon, Oct 27, 2003, 4:55 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (JC: Wed, Nov 26, 2003, 11:54 am) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Noel: Thu, Aug 26, 2004, 12:44 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Jonno65: Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 1:44 am) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Noel: Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 2:46 am) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (wm1228: Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 9:01 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (D-an-W: Sat, Nov 20, 2004, 5:13 am) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Billy Stout: Tue, Dec 7, 2004, 4:47 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (la: Tue, Jul 15, 2008, 10:24 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Stuart: Wed, Jun 17, 2009, 6:31 am) re: AUTORUN does not work Posssible Solution found for Nero Starting with blank CD/DVD (Thomas: Fri, Aug 7, 2009, 11:44 am) re: AUTORUN does not work Posssible Solution found for Nero Starting with blank CD/DVD (Thomas: Fri, Aug 7, 2009, 12:01 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Peter: Thu, Mar 4, 2010, 5:29 pm) FiXED!!!!!!!!! (John N. Shaw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 2:42 pm) re: Same problem with me - need help !! (Idan Bismut: Tue, Dec 31, 2002, 4:44 pm) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Preston Kincaid: Tue, Jan 21, 2003, 11:42 am) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Lars: Fri, Jan 24, 2003, 8:21 am) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (kenneth: Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 12:53 am) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Bemused: Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 11:39 am) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Kristina Hong: Sat, May 3, 2003, 9:36 am) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Michael Chan: Mon, May 5, 2003, 9:50 am) re: FIX INSIDE!!!!! (Gervais: Sat, May 10, 2003, 7:51 am) Have tried all of this and still no autorun!! (Dave Fry: Wed, Oct 1, 2003, 7:17 pm) re: FIX INSIDE!!!!! (brad: Tue, Nov 4, 2003, 5:12 am) re: Alternative FIX 2 !! (Tommy: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 9:09 am) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (wguru: Mon, Apr 24, 2006, 12:07 am) 100% fixed! (Julian: Wed, Nov 12, 2003, 9:17 am) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Ali: Fri, Jun 27, 2003, 8:39 am) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Kemko: Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 2:53 pm) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (nick: Tue, Jul 22, 2003, 6:04 am) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! - and my method too!! (Jim C.: Thu, Apr 29, 2004, 5:26 am) re: Addition to: FiXED!!!!!!!!! - and my method too!! (Gil C. Schmidt: Sat, Mar 5, 2005, 6:31 pm) re: AUTORUN FIX (paddy: Sat, Oct 1, 2005, 4:58 am) Paddy's suggestion worked for me (yk07: Tue, Jul 18, 2006, 9:09 am) Paddy's suggestion worked for me.....until (yk07: Wed, Jul 19, 2006, 1:00 am) BF2142 wont autorun and windows xp cant find the CD (Silentfury: Sat, Nov 11, 2006, 2:39 pm) Solved an autorun problem on a CD I created (Ian: Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 3:42 pm) re: BF2142 wont autorun and windows xp cant find the CD (Matt: Wed, Jan 17, 2007, 6:31 pm) re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (paul: Wed, Apr 6, 2005, 8:23 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Brian Graham: Sun, Jun 15, 2003, 10:46 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Luke: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 7:50 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (wguru: Mon, Apr 24, 2006, 2:59 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (chevis: Thu, Oct 30, 2003, 1:50 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (John: Sun, Apr 9, 2006, 4:50 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Jim: Mon, Apr 10, 2006, 1:38 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Graham Wilson: Mon, Jun 14, 2004, 9:37 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Carnival: Mon, Aug 23, 2004, 8:37 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Jonno65: Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 1:49 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Rob James: Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 6:27 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Carnival: Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 10:03 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (cindy: Sat, Oct 16, 2004, 8:18 pm) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Zaphod: Wed, Dec 29, 2004, 8:31 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Finn Bogstad: Sun, Jan 2, 2005, 7:44 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Huey: Wed, Dec 28, 2005, 10:45 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (kplaw69: Sun, Aug 5, 2007, 7:34 am) Restore default autorun settings for the affected drive (Immacolata: Sat, Feb 12, 2005, 4:50 am) If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (Dvorak: Mon, Apr 18, 2005, 7:15 am) re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (Bill: Wed, Jan 18, 2006, 4:16 pm) re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (AllenLI: Wed, Feb 8, 2006, 4:27 am) re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (gerard higgins: Sat, Jul 14, 2007, 2:33 am) re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (Dvorak: Sat, Jul 14, 2007, 6:09 am) re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (Rumaldo: Sun, Apr 20, 2008, 2:19 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (jerrry lewis: Sun, Jun 5, 2005, 6:57 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (timforan: Tue, Jun 14, 2005, 12:45 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Rob: Sat, Jul 2, 2005, 8:46 am) It's a software problem ! (Larry: Fri, Jun 17, 2005, 9:32 pm) re: It's a software problem ! (Mark Palmer: Thu, Jun 30, 2005, 11:16 pm) re: It's a software problem ! (Peter Fez: Tue, Jul 5, 2005, 7:32 am) re: It's a software problem ! (Peter Waller: Fri, Aug 19, 2005, 7:13 pm) re: It's a software problem ! (John Boutland: Sun, Oct 2, 2005, 11:03 pm) re: It's a software problem ! (Todd E. Bryant: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 11:41 am) AUTORUN -partially- works now... (Sam Smith: Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 8:40 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Wogboy: Thu, May 25, 2006, 5:46 am) re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (harvey: Sat, May 5, 2007, 11:00 pm) It's a reg thing but none of these worked (stuartjk: Tue, May 29, 2007, 4:21 pm) Finally! A real fix! (Ani Marie: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 8:46 am) re: Finally! A real fix! (KRJ: Wed, May 28, 2008, 9:05 pm) re: Finally! A real fix! (Spexx: Thu, May 29, 2008, 4:41 am) re: Finally! A real fix! (KRJ: Thu, May 29, 2008, 6:41 am) Eureka! (Luc: Fri, Nov 13, 2009, 1:05 pm) Eureka!!!! (Luc: Fri, Nov 13, 2009, 1:21 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum