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Registry Editing Tips

Enable or Disable the CD-ROM Autorun Feature

You can disable the CD-ROM autorun by changing this setting, this will stop applications from auto launching when you insert a CD-ROM disc into your drive.

Open: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom

Change to value of 'Autorun', or create a new DWORD value if it doesn't exist: (0=disable, 1=enable)

Restart Your Computer.


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