I created a problem using Autoplay extender

[Beemer]

My DVD/CDROM player would not recognise any disk. I checked that Autoplay
was selecting Media Player and then for the first time I looked at Autoplay
extender and clicked autostart. Now at this point I had been trying to run
or autorun a commercial CD and I left the cd in the computer when I
rebooted.

The cd still did not run but I then read a MS fix which was to change the
drive letter. After doing this and rebooting the DVD/CDROM was recognised
in Explorer and it played the CD both manually and autoplay.

However now the problem is that every time I boot I get a MS popup window
saying:

Open with

Choose the program you want to use to open this file

File: (there follows here a long string of extended ascii characters which
cannot be read)

There is no disc in the drive and I do not know how to eliminate this
annoying popup.

If I select notepad to try to read the file all I see is binary.

What can you advise me to now do?

Beemer

 

[Beemer]

removed this powertoy and all is now well

Beemer
| My DVD/CDROM player would not recognise any disk. I checked that Autoplay
| was selecting Media Player and then for the first time I looked at
Autoplay
| extender and clicked autostart. Now at this point I had been trying to
run
| or autorun a commercial CD and I left the cd in the computer when I
| rebooted.
|
| The cd still did not run but I then read a MS fix which was to change the
| drive letter. After doing this and rebooting the DVD/CDROM was
recognised
| in Explorer and it played the CD both manually and autoplay.
|
| However now the problem is that every time I boot I get a MS popup window
| saying:
|
| Open with
|
| Choose the program you want to use to open this file
|
| File: (there follows here a long string of extended ascii characters
which
| cannot be read)
|
| There is no disc in the drive and I do not know how to eliminate this
| annoying popup.
|
| If I select notepad to try to read the file all I see is binary.
|
| What can you advise me to now do?
|
| Beemer
|
|
|

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thanks for the update, Beemer. I'm sure this info will help others in future.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


removed this powertoy and all is now well

Beemer
| My DVD/CDROM player would not recognise any disk. I checked that Autoplay
| was selecting Media Player and then for the first time I looked at
Autoplay
| extender and clicked autostart. Now at this point I had been trying to
run
| or autorun a commercial CD and I left the cd in the computer when I
| rebooted.
|
| The cd still did not run but I then read a MS fix which was to change the
| drive letter. After doing this and rebooting the DVD/CDROM was
recognised
| in Explorer and it played the CD both manually and autoplay.
|
| However now the problem is that every time I boot I get a MS popup window
| saying:
|
| Open with
|
| Choose the program you want to use to open this file
|
| File: (there follows here a long string of extended ascii characters
which
| cannot be read)
|
| There is no disc in the drive and I do not know how to eliminate this
| annoying popup.
|
| If I select notepad to try to read the file all I see is binary.
|
| What can you advise me to now do?
|
| Beemer
|
|
|