Disable Autorun CD
If there is a CD-ROM changer attached to your computer, you may want to disable automatically running CD-ROMs (the automatic running of a compact disc [CD] or the automatic playing of an audio CD-ROM). If automatically running CD-ROMs is enabled with a CD-ROM changer, each time that you insert a new CD-ROM into one of the trays, Windows cycles through every tray in the changer.
When you insert any cd to your cd rom … the computer will autorun your cd …
And defaultly the cd will be opened with any default program just like video player program
Some times it’s very anoying … Because the cd is auto played ..
There is no default menu or option to enable or disable automatically running CD-ROM. To Disable automatically running CD-ROMs, you must edit the registry. Here is the way to disable autorun cd from registry :
- Click Start, click Run, then type regedit in the box, and then press ENTER.
- Find the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
- To disable automatic running CD-ROMs, change Autorun value to 0 . To enable automatic running CD-ROMs, change Autorun value to 1
- Restart Your Computer PC