All of the sudden my comp won't autorun/autoplay CDs. I don't know why. The drive starts spinning like before, then stops. Everything else works fine. It reads it perfectly, no trouble. I just have to go in and manually run it. GRRAAAAAH. Help.
If you have CD burning software sometimes it harbors a feature to disable or enable autorun. I would check out the preferences for this software and see if this is true for you.
Open up 'My Computer' or Windows Explorer. Right click on your CD drive. Choose properties. Click the autoplay tab. See what's in there.
I went into XP, selected the CD drive and right click. This brings up a tabbed dialog. One of the tabs is AutoPlay. Make sure that the correct action is specified for your computer in this tab.
OFF THE SUBJECT: Anybody know where I can find dirt cheap software? I'm looking for Windows XP Home Version (NO UPGRADE).
What is dirt cheap to you? You can buy an OEM version on EBay for about $75. The full version is $200.
The Autoplay tabs are all showing correct settings. I have Nero and had Easy CD-DA Extractor installed (it rips tracks from your cds to your comp). I'd already deleted ECDDA, and checked Nero. Didn't see any settings that would effect anything.
Thanks for the help so far guys. Hmm. Looked at this: But my value was 1, so everything was okay here. However, I also noticed this in that same key: AutoRunAlwaysDisable REG_MULTI_SZ NEC MBR-7 PIONEER CHR DRM DRIVE I have no idea what this is. I don't have a Pioneer drive. Is this just some warning, like if I had a Pioneer drive then Autorun wouldn't work?? I'm at a loss there. Then I followed this: I know jacks**t about hexadecimal value. But on my system that key is set to: ff 00 00 00 And that's about it. I'm still screwed.
thats interesting...on my XP Pro system, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun is showing this: 0X00000091(145) alll you have to do is punch in 91 in the text box and make sure hexadecimal is selected..it will fill in the rest. try changing your value to match mine..especially since mine matches the KB article.. as far as the Pioneer value..if you expand it out..it lists alot of models...maybe these are models that wont work correctly or need another method of using the autoplay...Im not sure.
Dirt cheap software. The cheapest you can get legal software is to have a university student buy it for you. Most of the big universities sell Office XP Pro and Win Xp Pro for like 15-50 bucks.
Rockets2K....you are my hero. I wasn't sure about how to edit the value (I think it was totally set wrong somehow, to where I couldn't even edit it) so I downloaded a simplified Reg editor, then set it to 91...and it worked!!!! Here's hoping I didn't damage something else...heh....but its working as of right now. Thanks man, I owe you one.
Not a problem Rokkit..anytime. for future reference...highlight the key you want to change and either right-click it or just double click it to bring up the dialog box that allows you to edit the value.
