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January 27th, 2004 17:00
Autoinsert notification / autoplay won't work
Hi...I am very frustrated, and will be greatful for any help.
I recently got a dell 2400, to replace an old win98 system used by about 5 younger-ish kids. One of the most important features to me was autoplay, so the kids could put in their educational/game cd and it would start, all by itself, without bothering me (with 9 kids total, I have plenty to bother with already...).
Anyway, I can't get it to work. I've googled the net, read some of the (many) threads here, and have tried many things, and it just won't work. It works enough so that I can just click on the drive icon, and if the cd has an autoplay.inf file, it will start, but it won't start automagically, which I think means that autoinsert notification is not on somehow.
Some background: this is winxp home, and i've used the PC for about 2 days, the biggest change that might somehow influence this was swapping out the original cdrom for a dvd-rom (it also came with a cdrw). otherwise, i've loaded only a few programs, like works, that shouldn't do anything.
I've tried downloading tweakUI and turning autoplay on and off, I've right clicked on the drives in the DEVICE MANAGER part of the SYSTEM section of control panel, and nothing works. I've even looked at the registry, although everything seems ok to me as best I can interpret the various posts here. The one thing I can't do, because I can't seem to get there, is to find the SETTINGS tab of the PROPERTIES of the cd/dvd drives, where (supposedly) there is an autoinsert notification on/off checkbox.
The odd thing is that about 6 months ago I got a 4600c, and it has the same problem - no autoinsert/autoplay, and I've done very little to that PC also. However, that is mostly for use with the older kids, so it hasn't really been an issue there.
So far, Dad is looking pretty lame here, replacing a working PC with one that doens't work well for the kids, so I'd love some pointers and suggestions. I just don't understand why this wasn't working in the first place? does dell turn it off intentionally or something (since I know sometimes CD burning has issues with autoinsert on).
I recently got a dell 2400, to replace an old win98 system used by about 5 younger-ish kids. One of the most important features to me was autoplay, so the kids could put in their educational/game cd and it would start, all by itself, without bothering me (with 9 kids total, I have plenty to bother with already...).
Anyway, I can't get it to work. I've googled the net, read some of the (many) threads here, and have tried many things, and it just won't work. It works enough so that I can just click on the drive icon, and if the cd has an autoplay.inf file, it will start, but it won't start automagically, which I think means that autoinsert notification is not on somehow.
Some background: this is winxp home, and i've used the PC for about 2 days, the biggest change that might somehow influence this was swapping out the original cdrom for a dvd-rom (it also came with a cdrw). otherwise, i've loaded only a few programs, like works, that shouldn't do anything.
I've tried downloading tweakUI and turning autoplay on and off, I've right clicked on the drives in the DEVICE MANAGER part of the SYSTEM section of control panel, and nothing works. I've even looked at the registry, although everything seems ok to me as best I can interpret the various posts here. The one thing I can't do, because I can't seem to get there, is to find the SETTINGS tab of the PROPERTIES of the cd/dvd drives, where (supposedly) there is an autoinsert notification on/off checkbox.
The odd thing is that about 6 months ago I got a 4600c, and it has the same problem - no autoinsert/autoplay, and I've done very little to that PC also. However, that is mostly for use with the older kids, so it hasn't really been an issue there.
So far, Dad is looking pretty lame here, replacing a working PC with one that doens't work well for the kids, so I'd love some pointers and suggestions. I just don't understand why this wasn't working in the first place? does dell turn it off intentionally or something (since I know sometimes CD burning has issues with autoinsert on).
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January 27th, 2004 23:00