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dvds and audiocds don't play in WMP

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Name: php
Date: October 21, 2003 at 17:24:59 Pacific
OS: WinXP SP1
CPU/Ram: Pentium III, 256 mbs ram
Comment:

When I insert a dvd or an audiocd into my cdrom drive, and then doubleclick it, windows media player 9 starts, but it doesn't play the cds/dvds, only after I use the dropdown menu inside wmp and select the cd/dvd it starts to play it, but before I just needed to doubleclick the cdrom icon in windows explorer and wmp started and started playing right away.

I checked the links and they are perfectly ok:
Audiocd:

E:\Programme\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:3 /device:AudioCD "%L"

DVD:

"E:\Programme\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:4 /device:DVD "%L"

I also checked the autorun keys in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom
AutoRun (set to 1 on my system)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer (NoDriveTypeAutoRun) set to b1 00 00 00 on my system

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
(NoDriveTypeAutoRun) set to b1 00 00 00 on my system

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AudioCD\shell]
@=""

tried setting it to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AudioCD\shell]
@="play"

(audiocd on), but doesn't help.

So does anybody know how to tell WMP to play audiocds/dvds right away after I doubleclick the respective icons in windows explorer?



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