CD left in drive repeatedly wants to install.

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Richard Brooks

Windows XP has only been on this machine for about a month now and more
recently, after having backed up my registry and rolled it back from a
hard reset to POST from a problem with Windows Media Player when playing
a clip, a CD that I need to leave in the drive when powering on now goes
into setup mode everytime I reset or switch on the machine.

I've even uninstalled and reinstalled the software (which needs the CD
in the drive for verification) but this has not solved the problem.

Is there a RUNONCE type registry entry that I can clear somewhere?

Many thanks,

Richard Brooks.
 
Rich Barry said the following on 02/09/2007 19:50:
Richard, don't know if you have XP Pro or Home but check here and choose
the
appropriate entry.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Disable+AutoPlay+for+CD+in+WinXP&btnG=Google+Search
Click to expand...

Thanks Rich!

My drive used to autoplay happily at each switch on of the computer but
not kick an installation off, even after XP Home had installed. It
started to happen after I selected to roll back the registry to what I
assume to be a date prior to me having had to reinstall the software for
XP for the first time.

I suppose this is first port of call but I assume this will also kill
the feature of putting a CD in to play automatically? ;-)
 
Rich Barry said the following on 02/09/2007 19:50:
Richard, don't know if you have XP Pro or Home but check here and choose
the
appropriate entry.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Disable+AutoPlay+for+CD+in+WinXP&btnG=Google+Search
Click to expand...

Hi Rich, I found the problem (but don't know why it didn't fix itself)
and AutoPlay Disable wouldn't have helped in this instance, even though
I realised that it's also in the properties for that drive - sorry!

There was an entry in the Startup in MSCONFIG which pointed to an
F:\SETUP.EXE which should have been cleared when installation of the
software was completed but wasn't.
 
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