Windows no longer brings up the "Open With" window.

[Guest]

When I insert a music CD or DVD-R/RW or a movie DVD, or a CD-R/RW, windows
does not give me a choice for what program I want to run to use the recently
inserted disc. Game CD's do Auto Start properly though. When I insert the
above mentioned discs, Windows Explorer just opens to display the contents of
the disc. When I go into "My Computer" and select "Properties" for my DVD RW
or DVD drive, and then select the "AutoPlay" tab, no matter what I choose for
the content type, the "select an action to perform" list is completely empty!

I want Windows XP Home Edition SP2 to bring up the "Open With" window like
it used to when I insert these disks.

 

[Mickey Mouse]

Bring up windows Explorer and right click on you cd rom. Select properties
then Autoplay, then select what you want to do.
Hope this helps.

Mickey

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Jeff,

Try http://windowsxp.mvps.org/autoplayhandlers.htm

You may use this utility in the following situations

1. A junk entry appears in the Auto-play window, sub-titled as <need
provider> ( Fig 1)
2. Select an action to perform box is completely blank for an Event (Fig 2)
3. To remove unwanted entries from the AutoPlay window.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


When I insert a music CD or DVD-R/RW or a movie DVD, or a CD-R/RW, windows
does not give me a choice for what program I want to run to use the recently
inserted disc. Game CD's do Auto Start properly though. When I insert the
above mentioned discs, Windows Explorer just opens to display the contents
of
the disc. When I go into "My Computer" and select "Properties" for my DVD
RW
or DVD drive, and then select the "AutoPlay" tab, no matter what I choose
for
the content type, the "select an action to perform" list is completely
empty!

I want Windows XP Home Edition SP2 to bring up the "Open With" window like
it used to when I insert these disks.