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re: Disabled autorun, now F5 won't refresh Friday, June 9, 2006 at 7:48 am 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. > >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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabled autorun, now F5 won't refresh Friday, June 23, 2006 at 12:17 pm Posted by fixet 007 (1 messages posted) Yes I have had this before and I have it now. There is a small fix called autofix or fixall or something to sort it. I cannot for the life of me find it but when I do ill post a lionk. On Friday, June 9, 2006 at 7:48 am, Alex T wrote: >Have the same problem: But I never stopped Autorun, so maybe it isn't linked. Anyone >solved this yet? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabled autorun, now F5 won't refresh Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 1:51 pm Posted by DSE (1 messages posted) I believe this is the file that was referenced... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c680a7b6-e8fa-45c4-a171-1b389cfacdad&displaylang=en I did a search for 'autofix.exe' on Google and got that link. Have not fixed my problem yet though. On Friday, June 23, 2006 at 12:17 pm, fixet 007 wrote: > >Yes I have had this before and I have it now. There is a small fix called autofix >or fixall or something to sort it. I cannot for the life of me find it but when >I do ill post a lionk. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabled autorun, now F5 won't refresh Monday, August 7, 2006 at 6:30 am Posted by Osiris (2 messages posted) is this the annoying popup ? www.terwiel.com/diversen/popup.avi On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 1:51 pm, DSE wrote: >I believe this is the file that was referenced... > >http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c680a7b6-e8fa-45c4-a171-1b389cfacdad&displaylang=en > > >I did a search for 'autofix.exe' on Google and got that link. Have not fixed my problem >yet though. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabled autorun, now F5 won't refresh Monday, August 7, 2006 at 8:25 am Posted by Osiris (2 messages posted) I think the system is trying to autoplay NOT a CD, but maybe a HD. See this: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/93502.asp put this in a .reg file and run it (everything between the lines): --------------------------------------------- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:00000008 --------------------------------------------- [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum