No Autorun?

[drfsupercenter]

Issues found Windows Update configured to never install drivers
Windows Update configured to never install drivers
Driver updates aren't automatically installed when detected by Windows Update.
Not fixed

Change Windows Update settings
Completed

Hardware changes might not have been detected
Hardware changes might not have been detected

Detected

Scan for recent hardware changes
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I dunno if that did anything... I can try rebooting and see what happens though.

 

[Ryan2320]

Question: Do you have Group Policy on your computer?? Sometimes Group policy blocks autorun...

 

[Dinesh]

Open up gpedit.msc through the start menu search box, browse to Windows Components \ AutoPlay Policies, and change the value of “Turn off Autoplay” to disable.

 

[drfsupercenter]

You, sir, are a genius!

Though I think you meant "disabled" and not "enabled" - either way, I turned both of those to disabled (under Computer and under User), and now it works.
Thanks!

(I also enabled the one about "always do this action" being disabled, since I like always having the choices)

 

[Dinesh]

glad to hear that its working now. yep, i mean disable.

 

[Ryan2320]

Also glad to hear it is now working

 

[easyIsle]

Hello! My first post on this forum will involve the rebirth of this thread! I hope some of you are still subscribed..

Anyway, I am having the same exact problem drfsupercenter was suffering from. The ONLY difference is the fact I am on Home Premium. That means I don't have gpedit.msc on my computer to perform the solution that worked for him!!!

How can I access the group policy options on Home Win 7?

If no one knows, can one of you use the Process Monitor tool from Sysinternals to tell me what registry keys or file writes happen when you toggle the settings in your gpedit.msc? I am hoping I can just make the changes without gedit and solve this issue.....!



If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very appreciative! And thank you to drfsupercenter for bringing this thread and many solutions to light!! Everyone here should be Micro$oft employees .......... they arent this helpful and they cost quite a bit to utilize. You guys are FREE!

 

[easyIsle]

Hello! My second post on this forum will involve the MURDER of this thread! I hope some of the new visitors to this thread via google (like I was) can find the following information useful!

I was able to solve this problem, without needing gpedit.msc, and also without even rebooting, not even LOGGING OUT!

I am thankful for that because Dell's response after I asked them this same question was "You will have to format and reinstall windows". How completely unhelpful!! Almost as unhelpful as the Microsoft Answers website where robots just reply with information from the M$ knowledgbase and everything is repeated twice. GEEZE I hate when I land on that website after goolging a windowss problem!!!!!

ANYWAY, HEre is the soluition

Open regedit and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and then,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Here you will find a key called "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" and probably set to 255. THATS THE PROBLEM.

Double click, change this to 145, then hit OK. Immediately you can plug in your USB or whatever other media ... and Notice autoplay is back!

If you want to enable autoplay foy ANY type of media what-so-ever, set it to 0 instead. Use 149 for Win XP.

Credit for this fix goes to a google search of mine, that landed on this thread. Next time I"m just gonna come here and search!!


bye for now

 

[Dinesh]

Hello easyisle, glad to hear that you got it sorted.

 

[hellis]

No CD Autoplay

Thanks, easyIsle your 2nd post solved my "no autoplay" problem, where all other solutions didn't.

 

[amaday41]

First post - thank you!

I was able to solve this problem, without needing gpedit.msc, and also without even rebooting, not even LOGGING OUT!

Even though in my case, a reboot was needed, setting my HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun DWORD value=0 worked perfectly! Finally

Very glad I found this forum, cheers all

 

[TTBoy]

Had the same problem. As always on this forum people with the knowledge give easy step by step instructions to get it sorted. Thanks for the help

 

[soonerk5]

This is an old thread, but my thanks for last solution. I'd lost autorun - couldn't play DVDs, BDs at all. Could see the files when I opened the drive tha was it. Went to the Shell Hardware Detection setting as above, changed the setting to the correct one, restarted my computer( just on the safe side and ) put in a DVD and it popped right up playing like it should. Received other prompts exactly as I had set them in Ctrl Panel. Think that setting must enable/diable that whole default program autoplay page. Thanks, I was pulling my hair out!