CD and DVD autorun not working

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AutoRun is working on the 1 CD drive and two DVD drives.
However, the autoplay is not working. I used the autofix tool and it
did detect errors in the autoplay V2, but it couldn't fix it. This is for
all three drives.

I really did a good search on the Internet to this issue and it pretty much
says that the Autofix.exe is the magic pill. That isn't the case with my
issue.

I used TweakUI and that did not solve the issue. This is universal since it
affects all users, even Admin.

Any other ideas that maybe causing the autoplay not to work? Any tools that
I can use that will help?

Note: I also posted this in the General news group and kinda desperate to
find an answer, so I posted here too.

This is how I interpret the difference:
Autorun is using the inf file.
Autoplay gives a popup menu of choices to use the CD with a certain
application.

Thanks,

MarkC
 
Mark,

I assume you have tried the simple approach which would have been to load
explorer, select a cd/dvd drive in the left hand section of the window,
right click and then select "Properties" then select the AutoPlay tab.

From this tab you can select which application should be run for which type
of media file. If you have the "Prompt me each time..." radio button
selected XP will ask you in a dialog what to do, however if you select a
media type in the dropdown list and using the "Select an action to perform"
radio button you can specify what app should automatically run each media
type.

Hope this is not the first thing you tried but, you didnt mention any of the
simple stuff in your list of what you tried to do to fix it.

Regards
 
Thanks for the reply, yes that was done, with nothing happening. However I
did find the problem. Would you believe it was leftover files and registry
entries from Logitech Mouse that was uninstalled recently? Once I got rid
of that, and uninstalled the 6.2 MS Mouse drive and went with the default.
Autoplay start working again. I was having some issues with the mouse and
when I fixed that, it also fixed Autoplay.

Mark
 
Okay I'm trying to burn a small collection of DVDs but my burner won't work. Last one I made worked its just the screen ratio was screwed up. So I tried making another one, leaving my laptop alone as Windows DVD Maker did its thing. At the last 1% its stopped, saying the DVD burner wasn't working/installed. I've tried making other DVDs but the autorun won't work and the list of DVD burners is left blank. I've tried inserting blank DVDs and waiting for the E: drive to switch over after loading, only to get Not Responding. I don't know what happened....



MarkC wrote:

Thanks for the reply, yes that was done, with nothing happening.
07-Feb-08

Thanks for the reply, yes that was done, with nothing happening. However I
did find the problem. Would you believe it was leftover files and registry
entries from Logitech Mouse that was uninstalled recently? Once I got rid
of that, and uninstalled the 6.2 MS Mouse drive and went with the default.
Autoplay start working again. I was having some issues with the mouse and
when I fixed that, it also fixed Autoplay

Mar


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CD and DVD autorun not working
AutoRun is working on the 1 CD drive and two DVD drives
However, the autoplay is not working. I used the autofix tool and i
did detect errors in the autoplay V2, but it couldn't fix it. This is fo
all three drives

I really did a good search on the Internet to this issue and it pretty muc
says that the Autofix.exe is the magic pill. That isn't the case with m
issue

I used TweakUI and that did not solve the issue. This is universal since i
affects all users, even Admin

Any other ideas that maybe causing the autoplay not to work? Any tools tha
I can use that will help

Note: I also posted this in the General news group and kinda desperate t
find an answer, so I posted here too

This is how I interpret the difference
Autorun is using the inf file
Autoplay gives a popup menu of choices to use the CD with a certai
application

Thanks

MarkC

Mark,I assume you have tried the simple approach which would have been to load
Mark

I assume you have tried the simple approach which would have been to load
explorer, select a cd/dvd drive in the left hand section of the window,
right click and then select "Properties" then select the AutoPlay tab

From this tab you can select which application should be run for which type
of media file. If you have the "Prompt me each time..." radio button
selected XP will ask you in a dialog what to do, however if you select a
media type in the dropdown list and using the "Select an action to perform"
radio button you can specify what app should automatically run each media
type

Hope this is not the first thing you tried but, you didnt mention any of the
simple stuff in your list of what you tried to do to fix it

Regard


Thanks for the reply, yes that was done, with nothing happening.
Thanks for the reply, yes that was done, with nothing happening. However I
did find the problem. Would you believe it was leftover files and registry
entries from Logitech Mouse that was uninstalled recently? Once I got rid
of that, and uninstalled the 6.2 MS Mouse drive and went with the default.
Autoplay start working again. I was having some issues with the mouse and
when I fixed that, it also fixed Autoplay

Mar



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Okay I still have that crappy problem. But if I turn in off and leave my laptop alone for a while, like 12 hours or so, the drive works, but only for a while. Spits out burning DVDs at 99% completion, and then its back to not reading discs...Should I get a new drive or get some geek squad help?



Ryan Stewart wrote:

DVDs won't burn
19-Dec-09

Okay I'm trying to burn a small collection of DVDs but my burner won't work. Last one I made worked its just the screen ratio was screwed up. So I tried making another one, leaving my laptop alone as Windows DVD Maker did its thing. At the last 1% its stopped, saying the DVD burner wasn't working/installed. I've tried making other DVDs but the autorun won't work and the list of DVD burners is left blank. I've tried inserting blank DVDs and waiting for the E: drive to switch over after loading, only to get Not Responding. I don't know what happened....

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Ryan said:
Okay I still have that crappy problem. But if I turn in off and leave my laptop alone for a while, like 12 hours or so, the drive works, but only for a while. Spits out burning DVDs at 99% completion, and then its back to not reading discs...Should I get a new drive or get some geek squad help?
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New drive, yes. But stay as far away from the Geek Squad as you
possibly can; they're just about the last people on earth you'd want
touching your computer.


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Ryan Stewart wrote in

I'm almost certain your problem is using Windows software to
burn stuff. Everything MS makes is shit but for a variety of
reasons most of the world has no choice but to use Windows. But
I have NO Windows apps except the OS and that may be one of the
reasons I have relatively few software-related problems.

Get ImgBurn, free and actually works. I bought the one from
www.goldenhawk.com a few years ago and keep on using /that/ so I
haven't used ImgBurn myself but I hear it is just great.

http://www.imgburn.com/

Standard disk maintenance procedures should be applied, and you
should always burn from an .iso or .udf image file recorded on a
freshly defragged partition. Yes, you need partitions. And you
should burn at slow speeds for best quality.
 
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