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by ctr2000 1 view

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Here is the scenario:
I used to have Win 98 on this drive and i installed O'reilly's annoyances for 98. When i had that program i diabled the auto run feature (for program and musice cd's)in annoyances program.
After that i bought Win Me and had a little bit of a problem installing Win Me so i thought maybe annoyances was the problem. So without changing anything i uninstalled annoyances. Eventually i got Win Me going.
Since then my cd rom won't auto start programs (which i didn't really worry about for a long time)and i would like to go back to the auto run of programs on cd's.
Here is what i have done so far to correct it:
1. Went into system properties and double clicked on the cd rom and made sure auto insertification notice was checked off.
2. Did a search through the registry and found the cd rom in question and change the value of auto insert notification.
I did a couple of registry changes to no avail.
I am still running Me and would like to have the option of having my cd rom auto run back.
Also i do have another hard drive on the sytem with Win 98 (boot magic) and the auto run feature works in 98 but not in Me.
Any thoughts as to where i might make some changes to make this work again.
Thanks in advance.

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by kirill lozovatsky

Try to configure followin registry entries:

1. Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom]
Name: Autorun
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value: (0=disable, 1=enable)
Change to value of 'Autorun', or create a new DWORD value if it doesn't already exist, and set the data to equal '1' for Autorun enabled.

Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

2. Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer]
Name: NoDriveAutoRun
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
This value is comprised of 32 bits. The lower 26 bits each represent a drive, with the lowest (right- most) bit representing drive A and the 26th bit from the right representing drive Z. If a bit is set to 0, theautorun feature is enabled on that drive. If a bit is set to 1, the autorun feature is disabled on that drive.

For example, if the value of this entry is 0x8 (1000 binary), autorun is disabled on drive D. Note that a value of 1 in the bit representing the CD-ROM drive takes precedence over the value of Autorun.

Hope it'll help

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