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CD/DVDs Stopped Autorunning !!!! Please Help !!!

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/cd-dvds-stopped-autorunning-please-help.43076/

rockthegod
rockthegod Original post #1
Dec 7, 2006 at 11:21 AM
I am facing this very weird problem. All my CD/DVD drives have stopped their autorun feature. :( This includes all my virtual drives (Daemon Tools 4/Alcohol 120 %) too. Until yesterday everything was workin fine when suddenly this happened.

Whenever I insert/mount any CD/DVD, the icon/label of the drives remains the same i.e. if it is DVD-RW Drive [W:], it remains so and doesn't change to the LABEL of the CD/DVD. Though Windows Explorer can access the files without any problem.

Autorun is enabled. Shell Hardware Discovery service is running and is in automatic mode. Tried everything but I actually don't know what to do in this case. Please Help. I am running Win XP SP2 with all updates till Sep 2006 installed.

Softwares I installed before I found this out:
WinDVD 8 Trial + .NET framework 3.0 + VC++ 2005 runtimes.
Kiran.dks
Dec 7, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Download this registry entry. Right-click and say run. You won't get any further dialog box. Registry entry gets added.

Registry entry: Enable CD Autorun

Restart PC.
rockthegod
Dec 7, 2006 at 2:07 PM
Ok after exhaustive research figured out that WinDVD 8 is the culprit... uninstalled it and autorun started working again....

neway thanks kiran.rkk for ur help !!! :)
Kiran.dks
Dec 7, 2006 at 2:09 PM
Nice to hear your problem solved. :)