Autorun not working 1

[ddvlad]

My CD-RW drive won't Autorun. The auto-insert notification is turned on from the device manager, still it won't work. I've tried asking around; no one knows. I am absolutely sure it's the OS (Win98 SE). The drive works fine so it has to be a software problem.
Thanks in advance. Life is a bad joke -- don't take it serious...

 

[Dade62]

Hello...
First do a backup of your registry before you manually edit the registry in the following manner:
Here is how to correct this:

From the start button, select run and type:

regedit

Open up the following key: (Click the + sign in front of each to expand the tree and then click to highlight when you get to Services:
Hkey_Local_Machine
System
CurrentControlSet
Services

Click on on Services to highight it in the left pane.
Click Edit (menu) then New then Key
Type in the word: Cdrom (as the name of the new key)
Press enter key

Click on Cdrom to highlight it.
Click Edit then New then Binary Value
Type in the word: Autorun (as the name of the new binary value)
Press enter key

Click Autorun to highlight it.
Click Edit then Modify
Type in the value: 01
Click OK

Open up the following key(click the plus signs in front of each to expand and then click to highlight explorer when you get to it):
Hkey_Current_user
Software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Policies
Explorer

Click NoDriveTypeAuto in the right-hand pane.
Click Edit (menu) then Modify
Change the value to 95 00 00 00

Close Regedit and reboot. Autorun should be re-enabled now.

If you feel comfortable manually editing the registry, then try this. But always make a back up of your registry before you make any changes as you can always go back and restore the old one if you make a mistake.
If you need any further help...please post.
Take Care...
Dade62

 

[FireDK]

I haven't got the smallest idea. I just wanted to salute you. )))

 

[ddvlad]

Thanks Dade62. It worked fine but I didn't back up my registry. By the way, how _do_ I back it up?

Life is a bad joke -- don't take it serious...

 

[hotfusion]

As long as you havn't installed or uninstalled anything in the last few days, you already have up to 5 backups already on your system.
Simply restart in MS DOS, and type
scanreg/restore
This will present you with 5 backups by date, simply select one, ideally the one with the current day's date. (This will have been created when you first booted up on that day.)
To force a backup to be created, again from DOS, type:
scanreg/backup

This can then be accessed by using the method outlined in the first instance.
Regards, Andy.