Auto Play/Start not working

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Lildevil

Am running XP and all of a sudden when I put a CD into my machine it will
not start automatically...... neither will DVD's. Its the same if I want to
install a program from a CD or listen to a CD.
Does anyone know of a possible solution?
Thankyou
 
1. Open XP's "Help and Support Center".
2. In the Search box type: AUTOPLAY , and hit enter.
3. Click on: "Change how your computer handles multimedia content".

Autoplay Repair Wizard
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...B6-E8FA-45C4-A171-1B389CFACDAD&displaylang=en

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| Am running XP and all of a sudden when I put a CD into my machine it will
| not start automatically...... neither will DVD's. Its the same if I want to
| install a program from a CD or listen to a CD.
| Does anyone know of a possible solution?
| Thankyou
 
Thanks for the advice but I guess I have deeper problems than I thought. I
ran the wizard provided and found out that it discovered a problem but the
wizard was unable to fix the issue but would/could not tell me what the
issue was.
Again, thankyou for your assistance. Will just have to live with the problem
until it gets bad enuf and then maybe do a reinstall.....
 
In Lildevil <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Thanks for the advice but I guess I have deeper problems than I
thought. I ran the wizard provided and found out that it discovered a
problem but the wizard was unable to fix the issue but would/could
not tell me what the issue was.
Again, thankyou for your assistance. Will just have to live with the
problem until it gets bad enuf and then maybe do a reinstall.....
Click to expand...

Well, I have an idea but it's just an idea...

Head here:

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Download TweakUI...

In there why not try disabling the CD/DVD AutoPlay feature entirely. (It's
under My Computer > AutoPlay > types FYI) After you do that I imagine you
should probably at least log off if not restart. Then you can enable it
again using the same application and once again restart. It will, I hope,
basically reset the settings for you and the handlers. You can also check
those too to see if they're set to do nothing which is an idea.

Galen
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"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and
its solution is its own reward."

Sherlock Holmes
 
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