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I have set the Auto Play in the Control Panel for my CD drive to Install or run program from your media, and I have checked the box at the top of the control panel to Use AutoPlay all Media and Devices, and I have saved the settings. However, when I insert a CD that contains a AUTORUN.INF file on it, it does not autorun like it should. Instead, I get a dialog that gives me one choice: Open folder to view files.
How do I get the Autorun.inf file to run, or to get the AutoPlay dialog to also show the option to Install or run program from your media?
Thanks,
BobV
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Try the steps which i have mentioned below:
•Go to Start Menu,Select All Programs,
•Go to Accessories and right-click Command Prompt, Select Run as administrator.
•You may be prompted for the password input the password and press enter.
•Open command prompt simply type net start shellhwdetection hit Enter.
•Reboot the machine
Hi,
One problem is the question was asked in the XP forums for Windows 7.
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Hope this helps.
Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP <- profile - Windows Expert - Consumer : Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.
I have set the Auto Play in the Control Panel for my CD drive to Install or run program from your media, and I have checked the box at the top of the control panel to Use AutoPlay all Media and Devices, and I have saved the settings. However, when I insert a CD that contains a AUTORUN.INF file on it, it does not autorun like it should. Instead, I get a dialog that gives me one choice: Open folder to view files.
How do I get the Autorun.inf file to run, or to get the AutoPlay dialog to also show the option to Install or run program from your media?
Thanks,
BobV
Did you ever find a solution for this? It doesn't look like Microsoft has any customer support at all anymore, which would account for all the OS market share they've lost over the last 5 years.
