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Windows XP SP2 Autoplay and the new DVD-CD drives
Windows XP Pro SP2 (ver. 2002)
Plextor PX-716A atapi DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD±R/RW, CD-R/RW I have plenty of memory and all settings everywhere seem to be okay, but I'm having a bit of trouble with this new CD/DVD drive. I will be doing the diagnostics test tomorrow which gets sent to the company to see if the drive is okay or not. It plays and/or reads CDs and DVDs if and when it wants to. The drive never disappears from My Computer, but many of my CDs hardly ever work - or just might, out of the blue. Windows XP SP2 Question: Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the new "autoplay" feature where you select what you want Windows to do with the content on the CD? Is there any way to turn off that "feature"? |
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You can change the way Windows responds to the insertion of particular kinds
of disks in your CD or DVD drive. Follow these steps: Open My Computer. Right-click the icon for your CD or DVD drive, choose Properties, and then click the AutoPlay tab. In the list at the top of the dialog box, select a disk type. Other options include Pictures, Video Files, Mixed Content, Music CD, and DVD Movie. In the Actions section of the dialog box, select the action that you want Windows to take when you insert a disk of the selected content type. If you don’t want it to do the same thing every time, select Prompt Me Each Time To Choose An Action. Click OK. Or take no action... Update drivers for software that came with the drive and see site for firmware update if available, see below: http://www.plextor.com/english/suppo...downloads.html j;-) "DSG" wrote: Windows XP Pro SP2 (ver. 2002) Plextor PX-716A atapi DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD±R/RW, CD-R/RW I have plenty of memory and all settings everywhere seem to be okay, but I'm having a bit of trouble with this new CD/DVD drive. I will be doing the diagnostics test tomorrow which gets sent to the company to see if the drive is okay or not. It plays and/or reads CDs and DVDs if and when it wants to. The drive never disappears from My Computer, but many of my CDs hardly ever work - or just might, out of the blue. Windows XP SP2 Question: Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the new "autoplay" feature where you select what you want Windows to do with the content on the CD? Is there any way to turn off that "feature"? |
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Thanks for posting that, Jaymon. I am well acquainted with the feature, but
think they didn't finish it, or are pretty sure people only listen/watch (to) music, videos or pictures. For instance, for straight data CDs, there is no choice for "data only" CDs, so our choice is 'mixed content.' I have all those settings made, but wonder if the feature sometimes doesn't initialize the CD because it doesn't recognize straight text as opposed to movies, music, etc. I know I'm sounding obnoxious - but am really frustrated. The first thing I did this spring after installing the drive was to get the most recent firmware and flash the channels. Last night I went to Microsoft.com and actually found numerous articles on the AutoPlay feature. What it looks like is that it was not really made for looking at straight text data - its buzz word is really 'multimedia', as in "entertainment-type events." I'm working through one of the long "fixit" articles and hope for some success, since I'm a researcher with about $3000 worth of CDs containing history, which, beginning with this new CD-DVD drive leaves me without access to my work. It seems to just "accidentally" work once in awhile, which doesn't provide a workflow. It was interesting to find out that the feature can also be turned off, which I will no doubt try. Again, thanks. "Jaymon" wrote in message ... You can change the way Windows responds to the insertion of particular kinds of disks in your CD or DVD drive. Follow these steps: Open My Computer. Right-click the icon for your CD or DVD drive, choose Properties, and then click the AutoPlay tab. In the list at the top of the dialog box, select a disk type. Other options include Pictures, Video Files, Mixed Content, Music CD, and DVD Movie. In the Actions section of the dialog box, select the action that you want Windows to take when you insert a disk of the selected content type. If you don't want it to do the same thing every time, select Prompt Me Each Time To Choose An Action. Click OK. Or take no action... Update drivers for software that came with the drive and see site for firmware update if available, see below: http://www.plextor.com/english/suppo...downloads.html j;-) "DSG" wrote: Windows XP Pro SP2 (ver. 2002) Plextor PX-716A atapi DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD±R/RW, CD-R/RW I have plenty of memory and all settings everywhere seem to be okay, but I'm having a bit of trouble with this new CD/DVD drive. I will be doing the diagnostics test tomorrow which gets sent to the company to see if the drive is okay or not. It plays and/or reads CDs and DVDs if and when it wants to. The drive never disappears from My Computer, but many of my CDs hardly ever work - or just might, out of the blue. Windows XP SP2 Question: Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the new "autoplay" feature where you select what you want Windows to do with the content on the CD? Is there any way to turn off that "feature"? |
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What burning software do you use? You might try going to the drive icon in my
computer and right click on properties, then to the recording tab and un-check the box or check it if your burning software works better that way. Keep in mind if you check it you will need to point it to a partition/drive with plenty of space available. Some third party burning software, mine is Nero InCd, works better with the box unchecked, keeping XP out of the equation altogether.. j;-) "DSG" wrote: Thanks for posting that, Jaymon. I am well acquainted with the feature, but think they didn't finish it, or are pretty sure people only listen/watch (to) music, videos or pictures. For instance, for straight data CDs, there is no choice for "data only" CDs, so our choice is 'mixed content.' I have all those settings made, but wonder if the feature sometimes doesn't initialize the CD because it doesn't recognize straight text as opposed to movies, music, etc. I know I'm sounding obnoxious - but am really frustrated. The first thing I did this spring after installing the drive was to get the most recent firmware and flash the channels. Last night I went to Microsoft.com and actually found numerous articles on the AutoPlay feature. What it looks like is that it was not really made for looking at straight text data - its buzz word is really 'multimedia', as in "entertainment-type events." I'm working through one of the long "fixit" articles and hope for some success, since I'm a researcher with about $3000 worth of CDs containing history, which, beginning with this new CD-DVD drive leaves me without access to my work. It seems to just "accidentally" work once in awhile, which doesn't provide a workflow. It was interesting to find out that the feature can also be turned off, which I will no doubt try. Again, thanks. "Jaymon" wrote in message ... You can change the way Windows responds to the insertion of particular kinds of disks in your CD or DVD drive. Follow these steps: Open My Computer. Right-click the icon for your CD or DVD drive, choose Properties, and then click the AutoPlay tab. In the list at the top of the dialog box, select a disk type. Other options include Pictures, Video Files, Mixed Content, Music CD, and DVD Movie. In the Actions section of the dialog box, select the action that you want Windows to take when you insert a disk of the selected content type. If you don't want it to do the same thing every time, select Prompt Me Each Time To Choose An Action. Click OK. Or take no action... Update drivers for software that came with the drive and see site for firmware update if available, see below: http://www.plextor.com/english/suppo...downloads.html j;-) "DSG" wrote: Windows XP Pro SP2 (ver. 2002) Plextor PX-716A atapi DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD±R/RW, CD-R/RW I have plenty of memory and all settings everywhere seem to be okay, but I'm having a bit of trouble with this new CD/DVD drive. I will be doing the diagnostics test tomorrow which gets sent to the company to see if the drive is okay or not. It plays and/or reads CDs and DVDs if and when it wants to. The drive never disappears from My Computer, but many of my CDs hardly ever work - or just might, out of the blue. Windows XP SP2 Question: Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the new "autoplay" feature where you select what you want Windows to do with the content on the CD? Is there any way to turn off that "feature"? |
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Of course, my burning software cannot even be considered here. For now, all
I want to do is to have all my CDs initialized so I can read what's on them, and that should be done by the Plextor drive itself. "Accidentally" it did initialize one of the data disks last night, but when the index pointed to a companion CD, Plextor can't see the next CD. There is no use in keeping this drive if it can't do the simplest task, such as reading data disks. I did record some small pieces of music the other day via Windows Media Player and that worked just fine. But Windows Media Player is not a choice for viewing the data on a data CD. I did find out last night on Microsoft.com, that this Plextor drive has not appeared on either Windows 2000 or XP's hardware compatibility list. So I will go down the list of fixes and see how I make out. Or return it and settle for a plain CD drive. Thank you Jaymon. dsg "Jaymon" wrote in message ... What burning software do you use? You might try going to the drive icon in my computer and right click on properties, then to the recording tab and un-check the box or check it if your burning software works better that way. Keep in mind if you check it you will need to point it to a partition/drive with plenty of space available. Some third party burning software, mine is Nero InCd, works better with the box unchecked, keeping XP out of the equation altogether.. j;-) "DSG" wrote: Thanks for posting that, Jaymon. I am well acquainted with the feature, but think they didn't finish it, or are pretty sure people only listen/watch (to) music, videos or pictures. For instance, for straight data CDs, there is no choice for "data only" CDs, so our choice is 'mixed content.' I have all those settings made, but wonder if the feature sometimes doesn't initialize the CD because it doesn't recognize straight text as opposed to movies, music, etc. I know I'm sounding obnoxious - but am really frustrated. The first thing I did this spring after installing the drive was to get the most recent firmware and flash the channels. Last night I went to Microsoft.com and actually found numerous articles on the AutoPlay feature. What it looks like is that it was not really made for looking at straight text data - its buzz word is really 'multimedia', as in "entertainment-type events." I'm working through one of the long "fixit" articles and hope for some success, since I'm a researcher with about $3000 worth of CDs containing history, which, beginning with this new CD-DVD drive leaves me without access to my work. It seems to just "accidentally" work once in awhile, which doesn't provide a workflow. It was interesting to find out that the feature can also be turned off, which I will no doubt try. Again, thanks. "Jaymon" wrote in message ... You can change the way Windows responds to the insertion of particular kinds of disks in your CD or DVD drive. Follow these steps: Open My Computer. Right-click the icon for your CD or DVD drive, choose Properties, and then click the AutoPlay tab. In the list at the top of the dialog box, select a disk type. Other options include Pictures, Video Files, Mixed Content, Music CD, and DVD Movie. In the Actions section of the dialog box, select the action that you want Windows to take when you insert a disk of the selected content type. If you don't want it to do the same thing every time, select Prompt Me Each Time To Choose An Action. Click OK. Or take no action... Update drivers for software that came with the drive and see site for firmware update if available, see below: http://www.plextor.com/english/suppo...downloads.html j;-) "DSG" wrote: Windows XP Pro SP2 (ver. 2002) Plextor PX-716A atapi DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD±R/RW, CD-R/RW I have plenty of memory and all settings everywhere seem to be okay, but I'm having a bit of trouble with this new CD/DVD drive. I will be doing the diagnostics test tomorrow which gets sent to the company to see if the drive is okay or not. It plays and/or reads CDs and DVDs if and when it wants to. The drive never disappears from My Computer, but many of my CDs hardly ever work - or just might, out of the blue. Windows XP SP2 Question: Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the new "autoplay" feature where you select what you want Windows to do with the content on the CD? Is there any way to turn off that "feature"? |
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Can you remember the burning software you used or was used on your collection
of cd's? I also am wondering did you install all the Roxio® Easy Media Creator™ 7 software for the PX-716A? Have you tried to reinstall the software or update it on the Roxio® web site? See link below: http://www.roxio.com/en/index.jhtml;...uestid=3608197 You might try un-installing the Plextor tools, if you did install them, just install the Roxio® Easy Media Creator™ 7 software and disable XP's recording feature in the drives properties, recording tab. The Plextor web site says the burning software is not needed for XP and that is not entirely correct. It's installation and update may aid you in seeing your collection. j;-) "DSG" wrote: Of course, my burning software cannot even be considered here. For now, all I want to do is to have all my CDs initialized so I can read what's on them, and that should be done by the Plextor drive itself. "Accidentally" it did initialize one of the data disks last night, but when the index pointed to a companion CD, Plextor can't see the next CD. There is no use in keeping this drive if it can't do the simplest task, such as reading data disks. I did record some small pieces of music the other day via Windows Media Player and that worked just fine. But Windows Media Player is not a choice for viewing the data on a data CD. I did find out last night on Microsoft.com, that this Plextor drive has not appeared on either Windows 2000 or XP's hardware compatibility list. So I will go down the list of fixes and see how I make out. Or return it and settle for a plain CD drive. Thank you Jaymon. dsg "Jaymon" wrote in message ... What burning software do you use? You might try going to the drive icon in my computer and right click on properties, then to the recording tab and un-check the box or check it if your burning software works better that way. Keep in mind if you check it you will need to point it to a partition/drive with plenty of space available. Some third party burning software, mine is Nero InCd, works better with the box unchecked, keeping XP out of the equation altogether.. j;-) "DSG" wrote: Thanks for posting that, Jaymon. I am well acquainted with the feature, but think they didn't finish it, or are pretty sure people only listen/watch (to) music, videos or pictures. For instance, for straight data CDs, there is no choice for "data only" CDs, so our choice is 'mixed content.' I have all those settings made, but wonder if the feature sometimes doesn't initialize the CD because it doesn't recognize straight text as opposed to movies, music, etc. I know I'm sounding obnoxious - but am really frustrated. The first thing I did this spring after installing the drive was to get the most recent firmware and flash the channels. Last night I went to Microsoft.com and actually found numerous articles on the AutoPlay feature. What it looks like is that it was not really made for looking at straight text data - its buzz word is really 'multimedia', as in "entertainment-type events." I'm working through one of the long "fixit" articles and hope for some success, since I'm a researcher with about $3000 worth of CDs containing history, which, beginning with this new CD-DVD drive leaves me without access to my work. It seems to just "accidentally" work once in awhile, which doesn't provide a workflow. It was interesting to find out that the feature can also be turned off, which I will no doubt try. Again, thanks. "Jaymon" wrote in message ... You can change the way Windows responds to the insertion of particular kinds of disks in your CD or DVD drive. Follow these steps: Open My Computer. Right-click the icon for your CD or DVD drive, choose Properties, and then click the AutoPlay tab. In the list at the top of the dialog box, select a disk type. Other options include Pictures, Video Files, Mixed Content, Music CD, and DVD Movie. In the Actions section of the dialog box, select the action that you want Windows to take when you insert a disk of the selected content type. If you don't want it to do the same thing every time, select Prompt Me Each Time To Choose An Action. Click OK. Or take no action... Update drivers for software that came with the drive and see site for firmware update if available, see below: http://www.plextor.com/english/suppo...downloads.html j;-) "DSG" wrote: Windows XP Pro SP2 (ver. 2002) Plextor PX-716A atapi DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD±R/RW, CD-R/RW I have plenty of memory and all settings everywhere seem to be okay, but I'm having a bit of trouble with this new CD/DVD drive. I will be doing the diagnostics test tomorrow which gets sent to the company to see if the drive is okay or not. It plays and/or reads CDs and DVDs if and when it wants to. The drive never disappears from My Computer, but many of my CDs hardly ever work - or just might, out of the blue. Windows XP SP2 Question: Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the new "autoplay" feature where you select what you want Windows to do with the content on the CD? Is there any way to turn off that "feature"? |
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Here is the low down and an interesting read on XP and CD burning..
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php Hope all goes well. j;-) "DSG" wrote: Of course, my burning software cannot even be considered here. For now, all I want to do is to have all my CDs initialized so I can read what's on them, and that should be done by the Plextor drive itself. "Accidentally" it did initialize one of the data disks last night, but when the index pointed to a companion CD, Plextor can't see the next CD. There is no use in keeping this drive if it can't do the simplest task, such as reading data disks. I did record some small pieces of music the other day via Windows Media Player and that worked just fine. But Windows Media Player is not a choice for viewing the data on a data CD. I did find out last night on Microsoft.com, that this Plextor drive has not appeared on either Windows 2000 or XP's hardware compatibility list. So I will go down the list of fixes and see how I make out. Or return it and settle for a plain CD drive. Thank you Jaymon. dsg "Jaymon" wrote in message ... What burning software do you use? You might try going to the drive icon in my computer and right click on properties, then to the recording tab and un-check the box or check it if your burning software works better that way. Keep in mind if you check it you will need to point it to a partition/drive with plenty of space available. Some third party burning software, mine is Nero InCd, works better with the box unchecked, keeping XP out of the equation altogether.. j;-) "DSG" wrote: Thanks for posting that, Jaymon. I am well acquainted with the feature, but think they didn't finish it, or are pretty sure people only listen/watch (to) music, videos or pictures. For instance, for straight data CDs, there is no choice for "data only" CDs, so our choice is 'mixed content.' I have all those settings made, but wonder if the feature sometimes doesn't initialize the CD because it doesn't recognize straight text as opposed to movies, music, etc. I know I'm sounding obnoxious - but am really frustrated. The first thing I did this spring after installing the drive was to get the most recent firmware and flash the channels. Last night I went to Microsoft.com and actually found numerous articles on the AutoPlay feature. What it looks like is that it was not really made for looking at straight text data - its buzz word is really 'multimedia', as in "entertainment-type events." I'm working through one of the long "fixit" articles and hope for some success, since I'm a researcher with about $3000 worth of CDs containing history, which, beginning with this new CD-DVD drive leaves me without access to my work. It seems to just "accidentally" work once in awhile, which doesn't provide a workflow. It was interesting to find out that the feature can also be turned off, which I will no doubt try. Again, thanks. "Jaymon" wrote in message ... You can change the way Windows responds to the insertion of particular kinds of disks in your CD or DVD drive. Follow these steps: Open My Computer. Right-click the icon for your CD or DVD drive, choose Properties, and then click the AutoPlay tab. In the list at the top of the dialog box, select a disk type. Other options include Pictures, Video Files, Mixed Content, Music CD, and DVD Movie. In the Actions section of the dialog box, select the action that you want Windows to take when you insert a disk of the selected content type. If you don't want it to do the same thing every time, select Prompt Me Each Time To Choose An Action. Click OK. Or take no action... Update drivers for software that came with the drive and see site for firmware update if available, see below: http://www.plextor.com/english/suppo...downloads.html j;-) "DSG" wrote: Windows XP Pro SP2 (ver. 2002) Plextor PX-716A atapi DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD±R/RW, CD-R/RW I have plenty of memory and all settings everywhere seem to be okay, but I'm having a bit of trouble with this new CD/DVD drive. I will be doing the diagnostics test tomorrow which gets sent to the company to see if the drive is okay or not. It plays and/or reads CDs and DVDs if and when it wants to. The drive never disappears from My Computer, but many of my CDs hardly ever work - or just might, out of the blue. Windows XP SP2 Question: Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the new "autoplay" feature where you select what you want Windows to do with the content on the CD? Is there any way to turn off that "feature"? |
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