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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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

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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?
>
>

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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.
>
>

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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.
>
>
>

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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 ---------------------------------------------

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