Memory of DVD/RW+- won't clear whne new disc inserted

[Guest]

When I use ANY program that writes to my DVD/RW+- drive (such as Nero for
burning or Genie for backup), the memory of the contents of the that disc
somehow won't clear memory after I close the program and remove the disc and
insert another one. If I insert another disc and then open windows explorer,
when I click on the drive, the contents that are displayed are not the ones
for the current disc, but for the prior one that was just written to. No
amount of opening and closing the drive or other tricks I have tried will get
it to display the contents of the current disc. Becauses this happens with
multiple programs, I am guessing it is not program specific, but has
something to do with Windows. ( I am running XP SP2) The only thing that
works is rebooting and that is not a practical solution.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

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|>When I use ANY program that writes to my DVD/RW+- drive (such as Nero for
|>burning or Genie for backup), the memory of the contents of the that disc
|>somehow won't clear memory after I close the program and remove the disc and
|>insert another one. If I insert another disc and then open windows explorer,
|>when I click on the drive, the contents that are displayed are not the ones
|>for the current disc, but for the prior one that was just written to. No
|>amount of opening and closing the drive or other tricks I have tried will get
|>it to display the contents of the current disc. Becauses this happens with
|>multiple programs, I am guessing it is not program specific, but has
|>something to do with Windows. ( I am running XP SP2) The only thing that
|>works is rebooting and that is not a practical solution.
|>
|>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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

Double click on AutoRun and make sure it's set to 1
(If 0 Explorer will not refresh the CD)

 

[Guest]

TY for the response, it helped me solve the problem. When I saw the "auto
Run" in the fix it triggered an idea. I went into the drive's properties and
manually changed the AutoPlay functions for each file type and the problem
went away. I would'nt have thought of doing that if it wasn't for your
response. Being just a little better than a novice, I wanted to try that
before I edited the registry. I got lucky and it worked.

Again, thank you