Help with disabling optical drive autostart

[ECLiPSE 2002]

When I insert a disk in either of my optical drives the disk contents
open and start - this is something new, it never happened before -I
prefer to select opening manually.
How does one disable auto start of an optical drive when the disk is
inserted in the CD rom or DVD drives?

Thanks for any assistance.
Frank

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:0x000000FF

 

[Pennywise]

When I insert a disk in either of my optical drives the disk contents
open and start - this is something new, it never happened before -I
prefer to select opening manually.
How does one disable auto start of an optical drive when the disk is
inserted in the CD rom or DVD drives?

Properties of the CD/DVD will let you disable autorun.

another way is to:

Start | run | REGEDIT <enter> Goto
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom

Double click on AutoRun and make sure it's set to 0
<reboot>

This will causes a problem of the CD/DVD name not refreshing the CD
title when replaced (no big deal).

 

[ECLiPSE 2002]

Thanks to Mark and Pennywise for your response and suggestions. Now
disabled.