SOLVED autoplay CD

[Trident]

Today, I am unable to access auto play when inserting audio CD into the drive. I've gone to Help & Support and tried the suggestion given, but all that appears is the a small Windows Media Play box on the desktop - in the past when that appeared there was a small blank box in the top right corner on which I would click, the a larger window would appear showing a list of all the recordings.

 

[davidhk129]

click Start button > in the search box, type autoplay > Enter
at Audio CD heading, click the pointer at far right, and select your default device, such as Windows Media Player > click Save.

Now can you play the CD now?

 

[Trident]

Tried your suggestions, but was unable to access the CDs, finally decided to restore an image - all is fine now. Thanks.

 

[davidhk129]

Tried your suggestions, but was unable to access the CDs, finally decided to restore an image - all is fine now. Thanks.

Nice to know you have it sorted. Thank you for the feedback.

 

[Gary10575]

I'm am sort of having the same problem, but when I insert a CD or thumb drive I do not get the auto play dialog box asking me what I want to do. I even checked services and says auto play is running, etc. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[davidhk129]

........when I insert a CD or thumb drive I do not get the auto play dialog box asking me what I want to do.............

So what happened? Did it play the CD?

 

[Gary10575]

nothing happened. still not getting a dialog box.

 

[Gary10575]

I did what it said to do here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/fix-w...box-missing-or-not-appear-display-and-pop-up/

 

[davidhk129]

nothing happened. still not getting a dialog box.

Have you tried the suggestion I gave to the original poster?....................

click Start button > in the search box, type autoplay > Enter
at Audio CD heading, click the pointer at far right, and select your default device, such as Windows Media Player > click Save.

Now can you play the CD now?

 

[Gary10575]

Already did all that last week. Even have the little box checked for all media devices.

 

[clifford_cooley]

nothing happened. still not getting a dialog box.

@davidhk129 was correct the answer is with Autoplay Settings.

Control Panel >> Hardware and Sound >> AutoPlay

Change the appropriate settings to ask every time.

 

[Gary10575]

That's already been tried. Might just take in to a computer shop soon.

 

[davidhk129]

Already did all that last week. Even have the little box checked for all media devices.

Suggestion :

Start button > search box, type cmd > at top left, right click at cmd.exe > select Run As Administrator > at the flashing prompt, copy/paste this command ......
net start shellhwdetection
press Enter key.
Exit cmd when done.

Try inserting your CD again.

 

[TrainableMan]

Gary you tried all the ideas from the Digitallife link you posted above? Because I figured it might be a registry issue or a stopped service but if you already checked items #2, #3 ,& #4 then I don't know what else to suggest other than #5 which is start uninstalling software they might be an issue.

 

[Gary10575]

I tried this option before in the past and all I get is this: The requested service has already been started. There is something screwy with my computer. It has a few other issues as well. Going in the shop soon. Thanks for all your feedback.

 

[Gary10575]

Gary you tried all the ideas from the Digitallife link you posted above? Because I figured it might be a registry issue or a stopped service but if you already checked items #2, #3 ,& #4 then I don't know what else to suggest other than #5 which is start uninstalling software they might be an issue.

.....I can't uninstall all software, 'cause when I moved am missing a box of software discs that can't be found to reload the software. thanks for your feedback. going to take it to a shop soon and get the issue and a few other issues fixed.

 

[TrainableMan]

Well there is no need to uninstall ALL software. It would need to be software you could logically reason might affect your registry or services related to Autoplay. For example I use TuneUp Utilities and I know it tweaks registry settings so I would consider uninstalling that but I also use Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and I am confident the office suite would have no effect on whether my Autoplay worked or not.

If you computer has other issues too then the best bet is probably a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 but doing that would also be a problem for you because you would need your missing programs disks. Depending on the software you might be able to download it. Note, for software that requires a product key, make sure you extract the key before you erase or reinstall from/over your current installation.