I did it again....

[RenamonXP]

I bet most people are sick of me posting. lol. well crazy degenerate people need help as well you know!!! Anyway.. i come to all of you for help. Most people are shunned on this subject but ill ask it once more. Im sure all of you who run XP enjoy the little selection box you get when you insert a cd into your cd-rom. You know what im talking about right? When you put in a cd. A little dialogue box will come up and ask you "What would you like to do with this CD?" or something to that effect. Well my problem is this ladies and gentlemen. I can not get that dialogue box any more. I think i did something to my cd-rom drive or deleted a vital dll file that makes that run. Because now all it will do is when you insert a cd rom... it will wait a minute or two and just open the cd. Funny thing as well. When i had the "My Computer" Window open and you insert a cd in your CD drive it would load a picture of a music cd and stat the cd's name next to the cd-rom drive letter. Well now it wont switch icons it just stays as the picture of the Drive and Disk logo and i dont get the prompt box any more. CAN ANY ONE HELP ME HERE!!!

[Redo40]

Have you tried repairing XP?

[muTe]

open my computer, right click on your cd-drive and click properties. on the autoplay tab, check all the file type maybe you selected an action to do (like open folder) and the prompt isn't opening anymore. you have to select prompt me each time... that's my idea, not sure though. as for the icons.. it appends to me sometimes and I don't botter so.. sorry can't help.

Dim3x HTH

[reboot]

Open Admin tools, computer management, disk management, and in the top right hand pane, select your drive, and right click, select Properties. Go to the "Autoplay" tab, and put a tick mark in the "Prompt me each time to choose an action".

You're welcome

[RenamonXP]

If you look at the file i have attatched you will clearly see that i have never changed these settings. These setttings as they are now have always been this way i have never altered these. Is there a way of repairing my XP? BTW im running XP Proffesional... If that helps in anyway... All so hear of going into folder options and changing things there but that didnt help i think it needs to be repaired because i seriously think that it is missing a .dll file somewhere. It must be that file that brings up the dialogue box. All help is apppreciated.

[sdkfz]

You have two options, one, try a restore point if you have an idea of when this started (and you are using that part of win XP), or just pop your win XP cd in and one of the install options is 'repair'

my feeling is that some software you have installed has over ridden the settings. Real Player (As an example) will force its way into all kinds of places to make itself the sole provider of audio and visual display. Maybe you have something similiar???

[andyms18a]

Originally posted by sdkfz my feeling is that some software you have installed has over ridden the settings. Real Player (As an example) will force its way into all kinds of places to make itself the sole provider of audio and visual display. Maybe you have something similiar??? [/B]

yes when you look at the properties window real player is the only highlited option and the restor default is grayed out try ticking select action to proforme and see if restore defult becomes avalable

[reboot]

RealPlayer has taken over the playing of all media on your computer. If it sees a format that it doesn't recognize, it does nothing. You'll either have to edit RealPlayers options to NOT use it for stuff, or better yet, get rid of Real Player and all it's associated crap and advertising permanently.

[RenamonXP]

Well what ever happened is beyond a restore point. And im unsure how to deal with this. Does any one know where i can locate the Windows Repair files? I have realone on my computer but when ever i put in (Audio, Mp3, Video, Vcd, or mixed content cd's) realone doesnt open. My computer will just open the directory its in. it will do this. open the Z:\ folder and display everything. Hell it even does this with Audio. and displays those .cda tracks that are only 800bytes i mean these are small files but it still opens the directory. What ever i did i must have done something pretty bad. I have had some programs on here and taken them off of my computer since the problem has started, I have had Clonecd on here and also an AVI to MPEG converter that might have an effect on something i dont know. I just want to get it fixed. I mean i always liked to have the option of choosiing what i would like to do with my files because i do something different on each cd. So come on people! Help me out!!!