CAPELLO DVD PLAYER DOES NOT RECOGNISE DISK WINDOWS
Just Use Windows ExplorerĪnother approach – and to be honest, the approach that I use – is to ignore all this autoplay stuff, and just use Windows Explorer. If autorun is disabled, then that’s the program Windows Explorer will have listed when we right click on the icon, or run had we double-clicked on it. There you can see that the instructions for autorun are to run the program “Installer.exe” when the disc is inserted.
It’s just a text file, so use Notepad to open it and you’ll see something like this: If you’re at all concerned about security, or you’re not sure exactly what should be run on this disc or any reason, is the “aurorun.inf” file (you may need to have “view hidden files” enabled in Windows Explorer). Opening Windows Explorer on the drive will show you the contents:Īs you can see “Installer.exe” is there, along with assorted support files that presumably contain the application to be installed. Looking at what’s on the disk is probably a good idea if you’re not sure just what you have. Or you can view the contents of the media. Windows explorer shows what program it would run to “Install or run” – something called “Installer.exe” that’s on the DVD. “Open Autoplay…” is a way to dig one level deeper: Just make sure that it’s a disc you know and who’s contents you trust. Just double click on the drive icon and what use to happen automatically should happen at your direction. That default action, nine times out of ten, is probably what you want. Right clicking on the drive icon gives us our first clue:Īs you can see there are two options of interest: “Install or run program from your media”, which is bolded to show that it’s the default action should you double-click on the drive’s icon to run it, and “Open Autoplay…”. Here my DVD player is drive E:, and you can see that the World of Warcraft disk is inserted. I can then open Windows Explorer to see the drive:Īny disk or USB device that would otherwise auto-run will appear in Windows Explorer as another disk drive. That’s on purpose because I have auto run (also termed auto-play) turned off. When I insert The WoW DVD into my machine nothing happens. I’ll use my original copy of World of Warcraft, a computer game distributedon DVD, as an example here.
So rather than making it easier for hackers to spread malware to your machine, let’s look at what you can do instead. The reason that’s a good thing is that autorun is one way – one very effective way – that malware can spread you unsuspectingly insert a USB stick or malicious CD or DVD and without your needing to do anything else malware is automatically run and infects your machine. That means that by definition nothing happens when you insert a disc. What’s most likely happened is that the “auto run” feature has been turned off – either on your system or on that specific drive. As inconvenient as it may seem, this is really a good thing.