Vista - CD Eject causes Explorer to close

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David B

Hello,

I have a weekly task where I copy about 2 dozen CDs onto a network volume.
Every since I got Vista, I've been confronted with a frustrating "FEATURE".
When I eject a CD to insert the next one, the Explorer that has the content
of the current CD closes, instead of the previous windows action of moving
"up" the tree to the next ready device.

My work around is to click back to my C: drive between each copy, but that's
a lot of extra clicks over a month or a years time, which I never had to do
until Vista.

I've searched the web extensively since beta looking to kill this and never
found a good solution. I've seen lots of comments to the effect of "That's
not a normal Vista behavior".... If it's not a normal behavior, how come all
5 of my systems do it? One is a Dell Laptop, factory loaded Vista Ultimate.
One is an HP purchased new with Vista home. The other 3 are clone boxes that
have been loaded by me with retail copies of Vista. One is 64 bit and the
other 2 are 32 bit versions. Every single one of these machines exhibits
this behavior, which they didn't do when they had XP on them..

As well, I've tested on a few friends systems and same result there.
Obviously this is a default behavior. I finally resigned myself to live with
it, and have done so for nearly a year, but today, I got the renewed bug to
get rid of this annoyance, so here I am.

Can anybody tell me if there is a way to disable this, and if so, how?

Thanks a million times over if you can!
 
Sorry, that's normal Vista behaviour all right. I think it's normal XP
behaviour also when in single-pane Explorer mode. I don't know of any way
to stop it either, sorry.
 
Thanks for the response. Another lame thing about Vista... and no, XP didn't
behave that way. I copy in the order of 100 CDs per month onto the network,
so I became very aware of this Vista annoyance.

Maybe it's time for some coder out there to write a better explorer.exe for
Vista :)


Richard G. Harper said:
Sorry, that's normal Vista behaviour all right. I think it's normal XP
behaviour also when in single-pane Explorer mode. I don't know of any way
to stop it either, sorry.

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David B said:
Hello,

I have a weekly task where I copy about 2 dozen CDs onto a network
volume. Every since I got Vista, I've been confronted with a frustrating
"FEATURE". When I eject a CD to insert the next one, the Explorer that
has the content of the current CD closes, instead of the previous windows
action of moving "up" the tree to the next ready device.

My work around is to click back to my C: drive between each copy, but
that's a lot of extra clicks over a month or a years time, which I never
had to do until Vista.

I've searched the web extensively since beta looking to kill this and
never found a good solution. I've seen lots of comments to the effect of
"That's not a normal Vista behavior".... If it's not a normal behavior,
how come all 5 of my systems do it? One is a Dell Laptop, factory loaded
Vista Ultimate. One is an HP purchased new with Vista home. The other 3
are clone boxes that have been loaded by me with retail copies of Vista.
One is 64 bit and the other 2 are 32 bit versions. Every single one of
these machines exhibits this behavior, which they didn't do when they had
XP on them..

As well, I've tested on a few friends systems and same result there.
Obviously this is a default behavior. I finally resigned myself to live
with it, and have done so for nearly a year, but today, I got the renewed
bug to get rid of this annoyance, so here I am.

Can anybody tell me if there is a way to disable this, and if so, how?

Thanks a million times over if you can!
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Cant you set the "auto play" to open the file explorer when a disk of your
selected type is inserted ?
Open one explorer window to your network share, then let windows open a
second window automatically when your disk type is inserted. then just drag
and drop.


David B said:
Thanks for the response. Another lame thing about Vista... and no, XP
didn't behave that way. I copy in the order of 100 CDs per month onto the
network, so I became very aware of this Vista annoyance.

Maybe it's time for some coder out there to write a better explorer.exe
for Vista :)


Richard G. Harper said:
Sorry, that's normal Vista behaviour all right. I think it's normal XP
behaviour also when in single-pane Explorer mode. I don't know of any
way to stop it either, sorry.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/


David B said:
Hello,

I have a weekly task where I copy about 2 dozen CDs onto a network
volume. Every since I got Vista, I've been confronted with a frustrating
"FEATURE". When I eject a CD to insert the next one, the Explorer that
has the content of the current CD closes, instead of the previous
windows action of moving "up" the tree to the next ready device.

My work around is to click back to my C: drive between each copy, but
that's a lot of extra clicks over a month or a years time, which I
never had to do until Vista.

I've searched the web extensively since beta looking to kill this and
never found a good solution. I've seen lots of comments to the effect of
"That's not a normal Vista behavior".... If it's not a normal behavior,
how come all 5 of my systems do it? One is a Dell Laptop, factory loaded
Vista Ultimate. One is an HP purchased new with Vista home. The other 3
are clone boxes that have been loaded by me with retail copies of Vista.
One is 64 bit and the other 2 are 32 bit versions. Every single one of
these machines exhibits this behavior, which they didn't do when they
had XP on them..

As well, I've tested on a few friends systems and same result there.
Obviously this is a default behavior. I finally resigned myself to live
with it, and have done so for nearly a year, but today, I got the
renewed bug to get rid of this annoyance, so here I am.

Can anybody tell me if there is a way to disable this, and if so, how?

Thanks a million times over if you can!
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