"BillW50" wrote in message
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Jo-Anne wrote:
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Jo-Anne wrote:
Thank you, Patok! I've reached the point of wanting to disable
AutoPlay. Is there a global way to do this, or will I need to do it
for every type of file on every drive?

The easiest way Jo-Anne, is through TweakUI.

My Computer
AutoPlay
Drives

Now unselect A through Z. And while you are there, just under Drives
is Types. Unselect those too.

So...here's what happened. I unselected all the drives and both of
the drive types in TweakUI. I then inserted a normal DVD into its
drive, and it worked as it should. That is, it spun and then stopped
and nothing more happened. After that, I inserted the "bad" DVD, and
it immediately opened PowerDVD. I exited PowerDVD and used Windows
Explorer to see what was on this DVD.
The other DVD in the series had only one folder--VIDEO_TS.

The bad DVD has the VIDEO_TS folder, but it also has a folder labeled
DVDROM with several subfolders and several executable files (I did a
screenprint of each folder, so I can say exactly what files are in
them). Given that I probably want to continue viewing the DVD itself,
would it be reasonable to try "stopping" everything in the DVDROM
folder? Perhaps I could rename it to DVDROMbak?

I welcome your suggestions!

Jo-Anne

Movie DVDs should only have one or two folders called:

AUDIO_TS (this one could be missing)
VIDEO_TS

If you DVD has any TS folder and more, then it is a hybrid DVD. Meaning it
has video and data mix. And I am assuming these DVDs are from the store
right? Then no, you can't rename, delete, or save on commercial movie
DVDs. As they are read only and that is the only thing it will let you do
with them.

And you now have everything set correctly under Windows to not autoplay
anything. So Windows can't be blamed for this. Maybe that service by
PowerDVD is the cause of the autoplay.

Say are these DVDs by Sony? As Sony has a long history of putting on what
some would define as malware on your computer. They only put this on a
small number of titles and not all of them. Sony claims they do this for
extra copy protection or extra features. But since Sony never makes the
source code available, who knows what this stuff really does.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


These are TV episodes from Fox, so not a Sony issue. It's disappointing that
there's nothing I can do to keep this DVD from starting to Autoplay... I
suspect the problem is related to the last item listed on the DVD's case:
"DVD-ROM Link to Exclusive Online Content."

Thank you!

Jo-Anne