Article ID: 319287 - Last Review: February 1, 2007 - Revision: 3.3 DVDs and Music CDs Automatically Play After You Change the AutoRun Registry Value of the CD-ROMThis article was previously published under Q319287 SYMPTOMS
DVDs and music CDs may run automatically, and this may occur even if the "AutoRun" registry value of the CD-ROM drive is turned off. This symptom may occur with hot-plug CD-ROM drives.
RESOLUTIONTo resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
260910
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260910/EN-US/
)
How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:Date Time Version Size File name --------------------------------------------------------- 26-Mar-2002 10:14 5.0.3502.5253 2,338,576 Shell32.dll STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. MORE INFORMATION
A value of 0xb5 in the following registry key turns off the AutoRun feature for CDs:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun
Microsoft does not recommend that you use the following registry key to turn off the AutoPlay feature:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Autorun
The real function of this registry key is to turn on or off the media change notification.For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 265173
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265173/EN-US/
)
The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product
For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
296861
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296861/EN-US/
)
Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot
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