right click on the CD Drive in My Momputer then select Properties theres a Autoplay Tab there! I hope thats what you are looking for?
yeah i know this, but actually i'm having a problem: when a CD is inserted in the drive it doesn't spins and it doesn't display CD label ("CD-RW Drive" is displayed and it doesn't change when i open a CD), and any type of CDs (music CD, CD with video files, program CD, etc) is not autoplayed. even if a CD has a autorun.inf (or similar) file inside, it's not executed when i double-click on the drive. the CD starts spinning only when i open it. how do i fix all this?
Okay. Start > Run. Type "gpedit.msc" (no quotes). Then, expand User Configuration. Expand Adminstrative Template. Click on systems. One of the options is "Disable Auto-Play". Double click to open it. By default it's not configured, but if you need to, set this option to Disable and apply. That should do it.
5 days ago replaced my old drive with the new one. at first, autoplay doesn't worked, but it displayed an icon of inserted CD (can't remember if it displayed the label, but probably it did). later i noticed that the icon and the label "CD-RW Drive" is the same for al CDs and autoplay doesn't work yet.
i presume that you can still actually access the data on the cd? if not i would take the drive back as it is likely to be faulty. However if you are just experiencing name problems.. ignore this post!
Remember, the master drive is at the end if the IDE cable, and the slave is in the middle. I would recommend avoiding the 'Cable Select' jumper setting, as this has been known to cause strange problems with certain systems.
OK. checked cables and jumpers, tried some variations, but it seems like the reason is not there. is it a fact that there is no CD "auto insert notification" option (one of those with checkboxes) in XP? in earlier versions of windows it was (i really think it was... ) somewhere on drive properties, and if it was not checked, CD (and its label, and its icon) was not auto accessed on insert, but in XP i cant find it. maybe its somewhere in the registry? (maybe it's a "hidden option" in XP?...) PS. my Nero Info Tool (on configuration tab) shows that autorun is off. new PS. WOW . just checked if it shows off it showed off but suddenly it turned to "ON" in my eyes! and now everything works! that's really something very strange :sick: . however thanks for help and don't pay attention to this post... :swt:
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=337363 Even though it's after the fact, that might give you some things to try in case you run up against this problem again.
