Disabling AutoPlay Temporarily
Tip: You can temporarily disable the AutoPlay feature by holding down the left shift key as the CD begins to run. In addition if you wish to browse the contents of the CD open My Computer, right click the CD-ROM drive and choose explore.
If you wish to permanently disable the AutoPlay feature follow the below steps for your version of Microsoft Windows.
Disabling AutoPlay on a data CD (Windows 95, 98, and ME)
1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, and double click the System icon
2. Open Device Manager
3. Click the + next to CD-ROM and double click the currently installed CD-ROM drive.
4. In the CD-ROM properties click the Settings Tab and verify that there is not a check within the Auto Insert Notification section.
If the My Autorun or AutoPlay feature still does not work after following the above recommendations and you are running Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows 98.
It is possible that after attempting to follow the above recommendations that the computer will still not AutoPlay CDs. If this is the case you may want to try the following solution, providing you are aware how to navigate the computer registry and are familiar with the possible issues that can be caused when editing the registry. You can find this information on our Registry page.
Within regedit, navigate into the following folders:
HKEY_USERS
.DEFAULT
SOFTWARE
MICROSOFT
WINDOWS
CURRENTVERSION
POLICIES
EXPLORER
Once within the Explorer folder, Double click the entry: "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" if present and change the value to "95 00 00 00"
If NoDriveTypeAutoRun is not present, follow the below steps:
click Edit from the drop down menu
click new
click binary value
enter "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" as the name
enter "95 00 00 00" as the value
Once the above has been completed, exit regedit and reboot the computer; your issue should be resolved.
Hope this helps!
