Autorun function depends...

[kimiraikkonen]

Hello,
When i put a CD into my CD drive which has no "autorun.inf" file, it
doesn't ask me what do to. Nothing happens, no dialog boxes are
opened. I know this was normal in earlier versions of Windows like 2k
or 98, but not normal on XP SP2 which i have.

But strange, some of "non-autorun.inf-having files" is recognized well
and i'm asked to what to do (eg: open and explore files etc.)

But some of CD's wasn't recognized and the common point is that they
don't have any media files like photo or video.

How can i fix autorun to being asked for ALL kind of CDs?

Note: There's no problem for running autorun.inf having CDs.

Is that normal XP behaviour or is it common issue?

Thanks.

 

[dobey]

Hello,
When i put a CD into my CD drive which has no "autorun.inf" file, it
doesn't ask me what do to. Nothing happens, no dialog boxes are
opened. I know this was normal in earlier versions of Windows like 2k
or 98, but not normal on XP SP2 which i have.

But strange, some of "non-autorun.inf-having files" is recognized well
and i'm asked to what to do (eg: open and explore files etc.)

But some of CD's wasn't recognized and the common point is that they
don't have any media files like photo or video.

How can i fix autorun to being asked for ALL kind of CDs?

Note: There's no problem for running autorun.inf having CDs.

Is that normal XP behaviour or is it common issue?

Thanks.

Autorun.inf does something different to the Windows handling of files on the
disk, (called Autoplay and it doesn't require autorun.inf). Autorun is there
so software distributors can, for example, have an install program run
automatically when you insert the disk.

Chances are at some point in time you have told XP to "always" do nothing
when you insert a disk with certain file types on it.

If you right click on your CD drive and select properties, then select the
Autoplay tab, you can specify what action you want XP to carry out for
different file types.

 

[kimiraikkonen]

Autorun.inf does something different to the Windows handling of files on the
disk, (called Autoplay and it doesn't require autorun.inf). Autorun is there
so software distributors can, for example, have an install program run
automatically when you insert the disk.

Chances are at some point in time you have told XP to "always" do nothing
when you insert a disk with certain file types on it.

If you right click on your CD drive and select properties, then select the
Autoplay tab, you can specify what action you want XP to carry out for
different file types.

I know but although "prompt for action everytime -- or kinda" is
selected, some of CDs won'te be autoplayed with a "what to do" dialog
box. No dialog boxes are opened. But if there are media files like
video or audio in a CD which doesn't have autorun.inf, autoplay dialog
box appears.

So it might be about XP's autoplay algorithm or kinda.

 

[Guest]

Did you check "Prompt...." for EVERY type of file in the drop-down list, or
just the one that came up by default?

 

[kimiraikkonen]

Did you check "Prompt...." for EVERY type of file in the drop-down list, or
just the one that came up by default?

All kind of of CDs are selected to prompt for every disc insertion.