Autoplay Feature has Stopped Working

The autoplay feature seems to have stopped working on a computer.

Autoplay is enabled for all drives including the fixed drives (according to
Tweak UI).

No matter how I confugure Properties->Autoplay nothing happens when the
drive is "activated" - i.e. a DVD is inserted or a camera's plugged in, or a
removale disk is attached.

If I configure the optical drive to start WMP when a DVD is inserted nothing
happens, if I configure it to offer a range of options nothing happens. This
used to work I'd insert a DVD and WMP would play it.

Same thing with my camera, it used to bring up the camera and scanner wizard
- this does not happen any more, nor do I get a range of options.

In other words the whole Autoplay feature seems to have stopped working.

The OS/Version is XP-Home SP2 - according to Windows Update the only missing
updates are SP3 and Silverlight, it's hard to believe that either of those
would fix the problem.

TIA - Phil D

"Philip" <Philip@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EBC8F886-4133-4FDB-B8C7-7BAF613D594D@microsoft.com...
> The autoplay feature seems to have stopped working on a computer.
>
> Autoplay is enabled for all drives including the fixed drives (according to
> Tweak UI).
>
> No matter how I confugure Properties->Autoplay nothing happens when the
> drive is "activated" - i.e. a DVD is inserted or a camera's plugged in, or a
> removale disk is attached.
>
> If I configure the optical drive to start WMP when a DVD is inserted nothing
> happens, if I configure it to offer a range of options nothing happens. This
> used to work I'd insert a DVD and WMP would play it.
>
> Same thing with my camera, it used to bring up the camera and scanner wizard
> - this does not happen any more, nor do I get a range of options.
>
> In other words the whole Autoplay feature seems to have stopped working.
>
> The OS/Version is XP-Home SP2 - according to Windows Update the only missing
> updates are SP3 and Silverlight, it's hard to believe that either of those
> would fix the problem.
>
> TIA - Phil D
>


See if any of the information in these articles helps.

Autoplay Repair Wizard
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

The AutoRun feature or the AutoPlay feature does not work when you insert a
CD-ROM in the drive
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330135

Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
AutoPlay does not work
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/autoplay.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

Thanks for your repoly - unfortunately none of solutions have fixed the
issue, the fixup did not find anything to repair, and all the registry
settings are set as they should be.

If I right click on the optical drive when there is a DVD in the drive, the
select Autoplay->Play with WMP and tick the "Always do the selected action"
then WMP starts and plays the DVD. But if I shut WMP down, eject the DVD and
insert another DVD (or the same one) then nothing happens, when I select D:
Drive->Autoplay, WMP is the selcted action but the "Always do ..." check box
is unchecked.

It seems that "something" is preventing the "always do this" option from
sticking

And its not just the optical drive that wont autoplay, its all autoplay
drives (which happens to be all drives)

Rgds PhilD

TIA PhilD
"Nepatsfan" wrote:

> "Philip" <Philip@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EBC8F886-4133-4FDB-B8C7-7BAF613D594D@microsoft.com...
> > The autoplay feature seems to have stopped working on a computer.
> >
> > Autoplay is enabled for all drives including the fixed drives (according to
> > Tweak UI).
> >
> > No matter how I confugure Properties->Autoplay nothing happens when the
> > drive is "activated" - i.e. a DVD is inserted or a camera's plugged in, or a
> > removale disk is attached.
> >
> > If I configure the optical drive to start WMP when a DVD is inserted nothing
> > happens, if I configure it to offer a range of options nothing happens. This
> > used to work I'd insert a DVD and WMP would play it.
> >
> > Same thing with my camera, it used to bring up the camera and scanner wizard
> > - this does not happen any more, nor do I get a range of options.
> >
> > In other words the whole Autoplay feature seems to have stopped working.
> >
> > The OS/Version is XP-Home SP2 - according to Windows Update the only missing
> > updates are SP3 and Silverlight, it's hard to believe that either of those
> > would fix the problem.
> >
> > TIA - Phil D
> >
>
>
> See if any of the information in these articles helps.
>
> Autoplay Repair Wizard
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
> The AutoRun feature or the AutoPlay feature does not work when you insert a
> CD-ROM in the drive
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330135
>
> Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
> AutoPlay does not work
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/autoplay.htm
>
> Good luck
>
> Nepatsfan
>
>
>
>