I have a Creative CD-RW. Normally when I place a music CD in the drive, it would automatically bring up Windows Media Player (being my default program for this function) and begin to play. However something got messed up just recently such that now it no longer brings up the player. Instead I now get an error type box labeled Desktop at the top and within says "Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied." It appears to me that the path has gotten messed up and it is now pointing to the desktop or something. If I go to the D drive in My Computer, it shows "Audio CD" and if I right click to get the menu, the top one of which is "Play", when I click on play, I get another box labeled "Program not found" and within says "Windows cannot find Program.exe. This program is needed for opening files of type 'Audio CD'". It also has an active address bar for me to type in the location of that file. The problem is that I cannot find any file by that name anyplace--not on the computer, not on the O.S. Win2000 discs. Nor can I find it on the device (CD drive) disc. Tried re-installing it's drivers. Tried re-designating WinMedia Player as the default program, all to no avail. The device is working properly. It's just that autoplay no longer works. I could really use some insight as to what has happened and how to repair it. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Hi Bill, Go to my computer and click views and then select folder options. Select filetypes and select the file named AudioCD and edit the path so that it points out to one of these files wmplayer.exe or cdplayer.exe Sajid Mohammed (sajleo@yahoo.com)

Hi Sahid, Thanks, you've gotten me close to the fix. At least the Windows Media Player program now comes up rather than the error message I stated--but it comes up now with a WMP error message (not the desktop one). The player does not come up "alive and playing" (autoplay) though it will play by selecting a song from the file menu. Anyway the error message says "The system cannot find the file specified". It has a button for "Details". I am going to study that a bit and see if I can get it back to normal. Definitely much closer though.