Sunday, November 16, 2008

Enable or Disable CD/DVD autorun

If you want to disable or enable autorun option of CD/DVD in your windows operating system then follow the instructions:

1. Editing Registry Editor:
Click Start > Run then type regedit and press enter. Now go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom from the regestry editor. Then double click to Autorun from the right window. Change its value. Put 0 to disable autorun and 1 to enable autorun. Click Ok and restart computer.

2. Making Registry Entry File:
To Disable autorun of CD/DVD open notepad and write the following code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom]
"AutoRun"=dword:00000000

Then save it as DisableAutorun.reg. Now close the file and double click on it and click Yes and then Ok from the dialogue box. Now restart the computer.

To enable autorun of CD open notepad and write the following code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom]
"AutoRun"=dword:00000001
Save it as EnableAutorun.reg and close notepad. Now double click on it and click Yes > Ok from the dialogue box. Now restart the computer.

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