cd rom drive

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I can not get my cdrom drive to auto run. Any ideas will
be a big help. I also have an external dvd burner that
will not auto play. thanks

 

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"Bill Rogers" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I can not get my cdrom drive to auto run. Any ideas will
> be a big help. I also have an external dvd burner that
> will not auto play. thanks

Run regedit.exe, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom
then set the value of "Autorun" to 1.