Lost Autoplay on one drive

[Terry Pinnell]

For a few months I've had Autoplay switched off on both my CD and DVD
drives (both called 'CD drives' by Win XP I see). I've just switched
it back on again, using Properties|Autoplay for each drive within My
Computer, and setting the various options. But it now works for only
one drive (my CD drive) but not for my DVD drive.

The registry contains lots of references to Autoplay in one shape or
another, but none of them seem to distinguish one CD drive from
another. And there appears no obvious logic to their format; some have
very strange contents. So I'd rather not play about arbitrarily with
the registry.

Anyone have the definitive story on setting this confidently please?

 

[Terry Pinnell]

For a few months I've had Autoplay switched off on both my CD and DVD
drives (both called 'CD drives' by Win XP I see). I've just switched
it back on again, using Properties|Autoplay for each drive within My
Computer, and setting the various options. But it now works for only
one drive (my CD drive) but not for my DVD drive.

The registry contains lots of references to Autoplay in one shape or
another, but none of them seem to distinguish one CD drive from
another. And there appears no obvious logic to their format; some have
very strange contents. So I'd rather not play about arbitrarily with
the registry.

Anyone have the definitive story on setting this confidently please?

Happily found the solution a few minutes later thanks. Used TweakuI.