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Old 01-19-2004, 01:22 PM   #1
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AutoPlay is AutoNothing

It has been the case on only a few old CD's, but now it's becomming an issue with many of my new ones. When I put a CD in the drive, it either loads the CD and take ages to load the autoplay screen, or it just doesn't load at all. This is especially the case with my local computer magazine's cover CD's, which ran fine a while ago. Please help, it's becomming annoying. I've got the latest drivers, so what can I do?
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Old 01-19-2004, 01:30 PM   #2
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If you have XP, right click on your CD drive(s) and select Properties. Select the Autoplay tab and select the option you want, either prompt or select no action.

However, it sounds like you have 95/98, in which case you need to disable "Autoinsert on notification"... I think that's what it is called, and I believe it is in the same location.
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Old 01-19-2004, 01:34 PM   #3
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I'll see what effect it has, and I'm running XP.
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Old 01-19-2004, 01:46 PM   #4
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I too have the same problem,not only will it not autoplay some times,also sme times the drive doesn't even recoginize the cd as being in the drive. This is a Liteon cd/dvd combo with the latest drivers and set to auto play in properties using WinX.
Could really use some help on this.
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Messed around with the Autoplay settings as you mentioned DarkHorse. A few of the CD's work, most don't, and loading times are still low (sorry, that was harsh). Anyone else have any ideas to help the two of us?
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Old 01-19-2004, 02:27 PM   #6
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download tweakui from microsoft its part of the power toys run it and disable auto play reboot and enable it again reboot and test this fixes any regerstry problams all so check you setings for you anti virus software as it may be scaning the cd first and run a cd head cleaning disk in the drive
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