How do you turn off auto start?

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 1:16 pm

ya know when u put a cd in the drive and the SOB starts on its own.... its royally pissing me the fuck off today. and i cna't figure out where the hell to totally get rid of this POS feature in XP...

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 1:34 pm

Open my computer, right click the cd-rom drive, select properties, auto play tab, check the select an action to preform, take no action. You will have to do this for every type of cd you put in. Music files, pictures, video files, mixed files, and music cd.
There may be an easier way I just don't know it.

Slugbait · Post by **Slugbait** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 1:37 pm

Edit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Autorun
Set value of AUTORUN from 1 to 0

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 1:43 pm

I knew there was a better way. Thanks Slugbait. I'm going to add that to my faverite windows tweaks.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 2:57 pm

You probably already know this but just in case you dont. If you want to leave the auto start thing on and only keep it from running on certain CD's you can hold down the shift key while the CD spins up and it will keep it from auto starting.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 3:10 pm

thanks for hte info guys got it all figured out... and i have a dead dvd drive as well... damn lost a 8x4x32 plextor yesterday now my POS Lite On 16x48 DVD is dead

not my weekend lol

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 3:43 pm

The proper way to do it:

Disable Autoplay on all drives:

START > RUN > GPEDIT.MSC > USER CONFIGURATION > ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES > SYSTEM > FIND TURN OFF AUTOPLAY > RIGHT CLICK PROPERTIES > CLICK ENABLE > SELECT ALL OR CD ROM DRIVES > OK >REBOOT

I can't stand autoplay

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 4:52 pm

normally it don't bother me... but i was suspecting my dvd drive was failing and it kept trying to spin up a disk and would lock my system up... i clicked on a couple things that were suppose to disable it and it wasn't working... but editing the reg sure did the trick...

Slugbait · Post by **Slugbait** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 5:45 pm

There is a slight possibility one or more of your optical drives isn't actually dead.

Weird story: last year I upgraded my mobo and RAM, and I popped in a 2940UW card to handle my new Plextor 40x and my old HP 9200i. A couple of months ago, the HP just stopped being recognized by both the BIOS and the OS. I tried everything I could think of for several hours, and essentially ripped my entire machine apart. I finally assumed the old thing bit the big one, and got myself a Plextor 48/24/48 IDE drive.

On a lark, I dropped the HP into my second machine, which has an identical 2940UW. Damn thing works perfectly fine. And to think I was about to just throw it in the trash.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 5:48 pm

i tired this one in the other system here and it still won't work... its recognized but thats it... just spins the disk and searches and does nothing more...