How to turn AutoPlay back on

[Neil K.]

Hi,

I have a system that I set up over a year ago and I know that I
deliberately went in and turned off autoplay system-wide. Problem is,
I can't remember how I did it, and now I need to turn it back on.

I have:

- Gone to the properties for both my DVD drive and my CD-R drive and
checked the AutoPlay settings. They look good. Just to be safe,
after having no luck, I pressed the "Restore Defaults" button, but
still no joy.
- I ran TweakUI for XP. It's settings said that AutoPlay was on for
both my drives. I cleared the key setting, applied that, then re-set
the setting (back to AutoPlay "on") and applied that. No joy.
- I searched the registry for all entries with "AutoPlay" in them. I
saw nothing that caught my eye. All settings seemed appropriate -
however, I couldn't find device specific settings.

I believe that whatever I did a year ago was in the registry directly,
but I'm not positive.

If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them!

Thanks,
-Neil

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[randwulf57]

Neil K.:
Might be some help here...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm
Scroll down to "Why doesn't AutoPlay work?"
randwulf57

 

[Ramesh]

You may want to use the Autoplay repair tool:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/AutoFix.exe

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Hi,

I have a system that I set up over a year ago and I know that I
deliberately went in and turned off autoplay system-wide. Problem is,
I can't remember how I did it, and now I need to turn it back on.

I have:

- Gone to the properties for both my DVD drive and my CD-R drive and
checked the AutoPlay settings. They look good. Just to be safe,
after having no luck, I pressed the "Restore Defaults" button, but
still no joy.
- I ran TweakUI for XP. It's settings said that AutoPlay was on for
both my drives. I cleared the key setting, applied that, then re-set
the setting (back to AutoPlay "on") and applied that. No joy.
- I searched the registry for all entries with "AutoPlay" in them. I
saw nothing that caught my eye. All settings seemed appropriate -
however, I couldn't find device specific settings.

I believe that whatever I did a year ago was in the registry directly,
but I'm not positive.

If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them!

Thanks,
-Neil

====================
Neil Kiser
(e-mail address removed)
====================

 

[dev]

Neil K. said:

Hi,

I have a system that I set up over a year ago and I know that I
deliberately went in and turned off autoplay system-wide. Problem is,
I can't remember how I did it, and now I need to turn it back on.

I have:

- Gone to the properties for both my DVD drive and my CD-R drive and
checked the AutoPlay settings. They look good. Just to be safe,
after having no luck, I pressed the "Restore Defaults" button, but
still no joy.
- I ran TweakUI for XP. It's settings said that AutoPlay was on for
both my drives. I cleared the key setting, applied that, then re-set
the setting (back to AutoPlay "on") and applied that. No joy.
- I searched the registry for all entries with "AutoPlay" in them. I
saw nothing that caught my eye. All settings seemed appropriate -
however, I couldn't find device specific settings.

I believe that whatever I did a year ago was in the registry directly,
but I'm not positive.

Click on Kelly's link, below. Scroll down to your topic; there's
extensive info on it.

 

[Darrell]

In Explorer, do to your CD drive. Right click it and choose Properties.
Click on the AutoPlay tab. Choose what you want.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a system that I set up over a year ago and I know that I
deliberately went in and turned off autoplay system-wide. Problem is,
I can't remember how I did it, and now I need to turn it back on.

Microsoft have written an informal checking program that you can
download at
Http://www.bigblackglasses.com/staff/downloads/autofix.exe