- 1). First, click Start then My Computer then right click on the CD/DVD drive icon and click Properties in the drop down menu that appears.
- 2). Now select the AutoPlay tab.
- 3). Click the Select an item from the drop down list at the top and then for the Action to perform, select the action you wish to associate with autorun. Do this for each item in the drop down list at the top.
Now click OK to save the new settings. - 4). As an alternative approach to the procedure above, click Start then Run and type regedit in the Run box and then press Enter.
- 5). Next, in the registry editor, click to navigate to the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom and then click on the Cdrom key.
- 6). Now, find the Autorun entry in the list of parameters to the right and double click on it and then change the value (it's a dword value) of "AutoRun" parameter from "0" to "1" and click Ok.
- 7). Now click the red "X" in the upper right corner of the registry editor to exit the editor and then reboot the computer.
- 8). Next, test the setting by placing a disk in the CD/DVD drive - it should autorun start after a few seconds.
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