alesch
Sergeant
My computer is dying. It's a slow and painful process that I'm doing my best to prolong just because I'm to poor to buy a new computer. Recently my CD-ROM drive has started to want to die on me, which is a sad thing because it really is one of my favorite bits of hardware. My CD-R has been dead for years now, the CD-ROM is really the only type of removable media I have left before having to fall back to the absolutely unkillable 3.5 drives.
The main problem with my CD-ROM's slow death is that it makes it hard to get any use out of my little game collection, mostly because of the autoplay.
You see my CD-ROM has decided to stutter, it loses track of the CD-ROM for very short bits of time, not even enough time to stall a program or anything runnign from it, but just long enough to bring a copy of the autoplay up. I've put CD's in and had up to 78 ajutoplays or installers apear before my computer locked up completely. I'm going to replace the CDROM with one I've salvaged from an old, slightly refurbished clunker my old school was nice enough to donate to me (since they were goign to throw it away anyway, one of the kids decided to start rippign up circuits and wires...) in the mean time I'd really like to be able to get the most out of what's left of my CD-ROM, which I think I cvan do by disabling the autoplay. I don't remember how to do that at all, and I'm hopiong someone on the forums knows how to disable the CD-ROMs autoplay on a Windows 98 machine.
Much appreciated.
The main problem with my CD-ROM's slow death is that it makes it hard to get any use out of my little game collection, mostly because of the autoplay.
You see my CD-ROM has decided to stutter, it loses track of the CD-ROM for very short bits of time, not even enough time to stall a program or anything runnign from it, but just long enough to bring a copy of the autoplay up. I've put CD's in and had up to 78 ajutoplays or installers apear before my computer locked up completely. I'm going to replace the CDROM with one I've salvaged from an old, slightly refurbished clunker my old school was nice enough to donate to me (since they were goign to throw it away anyway, one of the kids decided to start rippign up circuits and wires...) in the mean time I'd really like to be able to get the most out of what's left of my CD-ROM, which I think I cvan do by disabling the autoplay. I don't remember how to do that at all, and I'm hopiong someone on the forums knows how to disable the CD-ROMs autoplay on a Windows 98 machine.
Much appreciated.