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terrypin
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First, apologies for length of this. But one question just seemed to
lead to another, and all seem associated - at least to my rather
confused mind.
Yesterday I inserted a CD set up disc to install a program. It
automatically displayed the setup screen, as it should. I went ahead and installed. I've done nothing else significant since. However, on all subsequent inserts, it does *not* now display the setup screen; it does nothing.
1) The r-click shortcut menu for the CD drive shows 'AutoPlay' at the top, in bold. So I assume that's the action I should get when I
d-click the icon?
I tried another CD disc, Microsoft Office 2000 Premium, and that too would not automatically display the setup/repair screen.
Yet inserting another application, Business Search Professional, which is designed to run from CD, *did* run automatically.
2) Should autoplay behaviour be consistent? I suppose it's conceivable that a registry entry could be made on the first occasion, changing later behaviour, possibly in an attempt to be helpful. (For example, on first occasion, a 'Repair' option would be meaningless.)
3) Presumably it's impossible for any program CD itself to be changed, even though the drive is capable of writing to CD-R and CD-RW media?
That got me trying to remember exactly what autoplay means. Under W98, if I had something called 'auto-insert' switched on somewhere, I recall that data CDs would run automatically if there was a file called autorun.inf in its root folder. Presumably that was W98 autoplay, although wasn't it called 'auto-start'?. But audio CDs were handled differently, and inserting one would trigger playing.
4) Is this still broadly the same under XP, i.e is it still all to do
with automatically running an INF file?
5) Under the drive's Properties/AutopPlay tab, is 'Mixed content' the appropriate one here? (There's no 'Data' option.)
6) Which action is appropriate: 'Open...' or 'No action'? (I've tried
both.) Neither sounds right to me in this context of a program CD.
Doesn't it need something like 'Open and Run either xyz.inf or
setup.exe'
7) Anyone else getting erratic behaviour with autoplay and know how to fix it please?
8) Is all this stuff documented somewhere in XP Home? Help & Support just says
"AutoPlay: Allows you to change the way Windows handles the media files it detects on a device with removable storage, such as a digital camera or a CD-ROM. For example, when Windows detects music tracks on your CD-ROM drive, it can automatically play the tracks or it can allow you to view them in a folder."
Note that there's no mention here of *data* CDs.
Terry, West Sussex, UK
lead to another, and all seem associated - at least to my rather
confused mind.
Yesterday I inserted a CD set up disc to install a program. It
automatically displayed the setup screen, as it should. I went ahead and installed. I've done nothing else significant since. However, on all subsequent inserts, it does *not* now display the setup screen; it does nothing.
1) The r-click shortcut menu for the CD drive shows 'AutoPlay' at the top, in bold. So I assume that's the action I should get when I
d-click the icon?
I tried another CD disc, Microsoft Office 2000 Premium, and that too would not automatically display the setup/repair screen.
Yet inserting another application, Business Search Professional, which is designed to run from CD, *did* run automatically.
2) Should autoplay behaviour be consistent? I suppose it's conceivable that a registry entry could be made on the first occasion, changing later behaviour, possibly in an attempt to be helpful. (For example, on first occasion, a 'Repair' option would be meaningless.)
3) Presumably it's impossible for any program CD itself to be changed, even though the drive is capable of writing to CD-R and CD-RW media?
That got me trying to remember exactly what autoplay means. Under W98, if I had something called 'auto-insert' switched on somewhere, I recall that data CDs would run automatically if there was a file called autorun.inf in its root folder. Presumably that was W98 autoplay, although wasn't it called 'auto-start'?. But audio CDs were handled differently, and inserting one would trigger playing.
4) Is this still broadly the same under XP, i.e is it still all to do
with automatically running an INF file?
5) Under the drive's Properties/AutopPlay tab, is 'Mixed content' the appropriate one here? (There's no 'Data' option.)
6) Which action is appropriate: 'Open...' or 'No action'? (I've tried
both.) Neither sounds right to me in this context of a program CD.
Doesn't it need something like 'Open and Run either xyz.inf or
setup.exe'
7) Anyone else getting erratic behaviour with autoplay and know how to fix it please?
8) Is all this stuff documented somewhere in XP Home? Help & Support just says
"AutoPlay: Allows you to change the way Windows handles the media files it detects on a device with removable storage, such as a digital camera or a CD-ROM. For example, when Windows detects music tracks on your CD-ROM drive, it can automatically play the tracks or it can allow you to view them in a folder."
Note that there's no mention here of *data* CDs.
Terry, West Sussex, UK