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CD Player Booting with Windows 95

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by peter j

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While booting up Windows 95 the CD player dialogue box appears on the screen and Windows goes no further with the boot-up process. Windows boots up okay in safe mode. Tried uninstalling CD Player but it made no difference. Any idea how to stop dialogue box from appearing on boot up as it it obviously interferring with boot-up process? CD Player does not appear in "Startup".

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by morrellf

That sounds to me like the Win95 CD has been copied as a music CD and not a data CD. Data CDs do not bring up the CD player. Try using an original Win95 installation CD.

by peter j

Everything worked prefectly until a student had unsupervised access to the computer. The student did not have a Windows 95 CD. Sorry morrell but your suggestion did not lead to a solution. Obviously something has been done to Windows 95 so that the CD Player dialogue box comes up automatically on botting.

by thechas

Hi,

The startup section of the start menu is not the only place to look.

Since you can get into safe mode, you can look at everything you need to correct the problem.

Start by running sysedit from the run dialog.
You are looking for any program calls that point to the CD Player.
If you are not sure about the line, add REM: and a space to the front of the line to disable it.

Next, (and more likely) check the registry.
CAUTION: REGISTRY EDITS CAN DISABLE YOUR COMPUTER! EDIT CAREFULLY, AND BACK UP THE REGISTRY BEFORE STARTING.

Run regedit from the run box.
Click on file, search
Search for runonce
each time you find runonce, check the run, runonce, and runonceexcept keys near the runonce.
You should find the CD player listed.
It should be safe to just delete the key.
You can export the key, or copy it down exactly if you are concerned that you will need to restore it.

Chas

by peter j

I tried to send you a comment without rating your reply, Chas but apparently this is not possible. Please do not let this deter you as it is possible that your response is leading in the right direction. I look forward to your response to my comment.

Thanks for your suggestion, Chas.
I went into sysedit and put a rem next to every line that mentioned CD but it made no difference.

I went into regedit. No "search" command but I found "Find" in the "Edit" menu. I searched for "runonce" and only found four references, all of which failed to mention "CD". They were:
(Name) Default (Data) IRunOnceCheckBox
(Name) Default (Data) RunOnce 1.0 Type Library
(Name) 61cb20548849adfb",33,HKCU,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce,^SetuplCWDesktop,"

Maybe that is it. Do I delete it?

(Name) Default (Data) (value not set)

The first two were then repeated again.

(Name) RunOnceExLogFile (Data) "RunOnceEx Log.txt"

Same again

(Folder) RunOnce

This contained (Name Default (Data) "value not set" and (Name) GrpConv (Data) "grpconv.exe -o"

Then the line starting "61cb" again

Then the RunOnce folder again containing (value not set)

And that is that.

What should I do next, Chas?

Peter

by peter j

The problem has been solved.
The CD Player had been put into the Task Scheduler. As soon as it was removed, everything worked okay.

A pity you didn't come back to me Chas. I would have rewarded you for your effort. Maybe it became apparent to you that your solution was not going to work.

Thanks to all who tried to help. Your efforts were appreciated.

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