I've got a problem with the CD-ROM on my laptop. When I insert any CD or DVD
the autorun doesn't work but it does for examle with USB devices. I'm using
Vista and I haven't been able to sort it out... :-(

Morningstar,

Open Control Panel and select Hardware and Sound. In that area, you'll find
options for setting autoplay and auto run.
--
freddy


"Morningstar" wrote:

> I've got a problem with the CD-ROM on my laptop. When I insert any CD or DVD
> the autorun doesn't work but it does for examle with USB devices. I'm using
> Vista and I haven't been able to sort it out... :-(

No Hardware and Sound applet in Vista's Control Panel.

Control Panel > Auto Play in Vista


"freddy" <fkirschen@tidalwave.net> wrote in message
news:3B46394F-5066-4B8C-B735-64D8B3073935@microsoft.com...
> Morningstar,
>
> Open Control Panel and select Hardware and Sound. In that area, you'll find
> options for setting autoplay and auto run.
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "Morningstar" wrote:
>
>> I've got a problem with the CD-ROM on my laptop. When I insert any CD or DVD
>> the autorun doesn't work but it does for examle with USB devices. I'm using
>> Vista and I haven't been able to sort it out... :-(

Very true! There aren't such icons on Vista but the Autoplay settings itself.
I was already trying to do something in there but those are only basic
settings and I cannot resolve my problem. Anyway, the thing is that my cd-rom
works almost correctly except this autoplay stuff and the fact that it
doesn't show an appropriate icon for different cd's and dvd's in My computer
menu. I'm little bit worried about the possibility of virus infection or
maybe some registry problem...

Merde... It seems that this also might be the cause: (Charles W Davis wrote)
"As a house call person for our computer club, we are finding several bad CD
and DVD drives when initially setting up new computers! Especially on Dell
computers. Last week at out weekly session, a bad drive was seen on an HP
computer."
I would be happier if this wasn't also my problem because my laptop is DELL
Inspiron 6400... If anone knows how to help I'd be grateful because I really
don't want to deal with DELL warranty service! :-(

I am running Vista Home Premium X64 and have the same problem. I have been
working with support for three days now and have gotten nowhere.
Autoplay is set to default. but the system does not seem to be able to get
it running.
when viewing Task Manager sometimes it will show autoplay running and then
the next time you plug in a jump drive it shows nothing.
Camera will not show.
My Computer will show each device when you place a cd or dvd or jump drive.
Microsoft has a fix program for these problems for XP but has not developed
a program to download for Vista and especially x64 OS's.
Larry.

"Morningstar" wrote:

> Very true! There aren't such icons on Vista but the Autoplay settings itself.
> I was already trying to do something in there but those are only basic
> settings and I cannot resolve my problem. Anyway, the thing is that my cd-rom
> works almost correctly except this autoplay stuff and the fact that it
> doesn't show an appropriate icon for different cd's and dvd's in My computer
> menu. I'm little bit worried about the possibility of virus infection or
> maybe some registry problem...

I can't find any resolution to this, was something posted? I have a Dell
desktop, sometimes the DVD drive works but mostly get an error message asking
if I want to "burn this blank disk" when the disk is not blank and it plays
fine in my WIN98 machine. This happens even to disks I burn in the Dell.
Using Vista Home Premium. Any advice appreciated.

"Morningstar" wrote:

> Merde... It seems that this also might be the cause: (Charles W Davis wrote)
> "As a house call person for our computer club, we are finding several bad CD
> and DVD drives when initially setting up new computers! Especially on Dell
> computers. Last week at out weekly session, a bad drive was seen on an HP
> computer."
> I would be happier if this wasn't also my problem because my laptop is DELL
> Inspiron 6400... If anone knows how to help I'd be grateful because I really
> don't want to deal with DELL warranty service! :-(

I have read several article addressing this problem. Tried all of them but 1 and I got no love.

The one that fixed it for me:

Open regedit.

Here is the registry path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET002 or CONTROLSET003\SERVICES\cdrom\

See the AutoPlay entry. If the number in the () at the end is 0, then it is disabled. Change this value to 1.

Exit out of the registry and reboot.

As soon as I rebooted, the Autoplay opened on every CD and DVD since.