CD won't autoplay in DVD/RW drive

it's an XP sp3, or 4 it seems, 1gb ram emachines, 2 ghz, the installation cd for like the print shop, or others pops up a window with the contents of the cd, but no autoplay?, ..
please help..
thanks
John K
here is the log the auto fix created ..

 

I found another with the same problems
this is what mine is doing..


I am setting up a friend's new XP machine which has a DVD/RW drive in it.
When I place a driver CD or other software CD in it it doesn't autoplay. I
have to open explorer and find a setup file and hope that I chose the right
one. The friend has no clue how to do this. Under Properties, autoplay, on
the drive there isn't an option of what to do if a software installation CD
is inserted - only what to do with music, pictures, video files, mixed
content or movies. I thought it might be mixed content but none of the
options are to autoplay.
If I right-click the drive I have an option to autoplay, but my friend just
wants it the way his old WinXP machine did it - it just runs when he puts a
disk in.
How do I fix this for him?

 

Greetings, John67.

Try this Microsoft Fix-it, just to get it out of the way: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9740811 (assuming that's not the auto fix you've already run).

Is the drive listed in Device Manager? If so, are there any flags or error messages?

While in Device Manager, you might also try uninstalling the drive and restarting - Windows should reinstall the device. See if your symptoms change.

The MS KB article describing other steps to take is here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330135

 

Here's another one: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743275.

 

thank you caliban,
i got to the last one and it still didn't work,
the window pops up with the cd contents labeled with like a, c, d, L, ..
and when i try to run the auto fix, the autoplay v2 event doesn't want to repair ,but the legacy autoplay event is ok..
driving me crazy..
johnk

 

Re: CD won't autoplay in DVD/RW drive tried fix still don't work

what about the handlers?

 

The various MS fixes should have taken care of any handler problems, cleaned the reg filters, etc. You could try a System File Check in case some spurious Windows file is corrupt. A quick SFC walk through is here.

Will the machine boot to a system disk using that drive? And does autoplay function correctly in Safe Mode?

 

forgive me but how do i boot to a system disk? and how do you start in safe mode?, i know not very up on this..
thanks
John
ps..i have img burn installed, and i had cdxpburn but uninstalled that as i read sometimes burning programs can cause this..will check sfc now..

 

thank you i'll try em

 

well none of that worked except i didn't try the bios thing

 

well i see the autoplay is a sec vuln so it's not really needed i just thought trying to install the print shop again it was difficult to navigate to the right set up file and wondered what happened to it auto doing it like on the last puter... nothing seems to work tho but the other devices like players auto work nice now
thanks
for trying

 

Might be one of those ghosts that inhabit every machine.

A band-aid would be to create a desktop shortcut pointing to the .exe of the program(s) that won't auto-start. I've had to do that with a couple of games that don't mesh well with Win7.

 

If you scroll down here. Microsoft has instructions for ither enable or disable autorun. How to do it in XP. -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715