How to Enable or Disable Automatically Running CD-ROMs
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If there is a CD-ROM changer attached to your computer, you may want to disable automatically running CD-ROMs (the automatic running of a compact disc [CD] or the automatic playing of an audio CD-ROM). If automatically running CD-ROMs is enabled with a CD-ROM changer, each time that you insert a new CD-ROM into one of the trays, Windows cycles through every tray in the changer.
There is no option to enable or disable automatically running CD-ROMs in the user interface. To enable or disable automatically running CD-ROMs, you must edit the registry:
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- Access REGEDIT (The page will open in a separate window)
- Double-click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- Double-click on SYSTEM
- Double-click on Software
- Double-click on CurrentControlSet
- Double-click on Services
- Double-click on CDRom
- To disable automatically running CD-ROMs, change the Autorun value to 0 (zero).
- To enable automatically running CD-ROMs, change the Autorun value to 1.
- Restart the computer
Additional Information
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer
NoDriveTypeAutoRun = 0x00000095
-and-
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer
NoDriveTypeAutoRun = 0x00000095
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0