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CD control in Win 2000

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by wordmaster1

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In 98 you can go into device manager and it is very simple to stop your CD ROM from automatically starting a CD that is loaded. How do you do this in 2000? Thank you.

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by thechas

Instead of from Device Manager, open either My Computer, or Windows Explorer, and right click on the CD drive.

Choose Properties.

Click on the Auto-Run tab.

Chas

by azizhakim

regedit
HKey_local_machine\system\Current control set\services\Cdrom
autoplay .Set it to 0 to disable

by shripalkkad

1. Go to Start\Run and type Regedit.
2. Expand the following tabs...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom

3. Double click on AutoRun and give the value data as 1 instead of 0

Regards,
Shriram.v

by ronypp

Unfortunately, Windows 2000 doesn't have a nice toggle to permanently disable autorun like Win 9x, you have to do a little registry editing instead.
1.Run regedit
2.Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Cdrom and set the autorun value to 0 to disable autorun, or 1 to re-enable it.

If the entry is not there, create a key

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
Name: Autorun
Data Type: REG_DWORD(Hex)
Value: 0

Thanks & Regards
Rony

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