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December 14th, 2008 21:00

XPS M1330 registry problem keeps it from Playing DVD movies

Hi,

The drive works fine, I can read data disks just fine, but when I watch a movie, I always have to delete the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2 registry key and restart before each movie. If I do that, the movie plays fine, but as soon as I pop out the disk and try to watch a different DVD movie, Vista 32-bit Home Premium won't recognize the movie.

Any thoughts on what the problem might be? The notebook is less than a month old and I haven't installed any software, save for FireFox and AVG.

Thanks!

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December 14th, 2008 22:00

OK - Solved my own problem. This thread on SysInternals got me pointed in the right direction:

http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10015&PN=3

I went to Start, then Default Programs. Selected Change AutoPlay Settings. Here, I changed the AutoPlay default for DVD movie from MediaDirect to Windows Media Player. That did the trick.

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