Expand instead of Play on CD-ROM/DVD

[Pierre]

hi,

when I insert a video DVD/CD-ROM in my DVD drive, XP open an explorer
windows showing the CD/DVD content instead of trying to play its
content. if I right-click on the drive in explorer while CD/DVD is
inserted, the default action is Expand and Play does not even show

any idea ?

TIA, Pierre

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Pierre wrote:
> when I insert a video DVD/CD-ROM in my DVD drive, XP open an
> explorer windows showing the CD/DVD content instead of trying to
> play its content. if I right-click on the drive in explorer while
> CD/DVD is inserted, the default action is Expand and Play does not
> even show
>
> any idea ?

Are you trying to play a movie? Executable? Music?

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[Pierre]

On Jan 4, 11:12 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pierre wrote:
> > when I insert a video DVD/CD-ROM in my DVD drive, XP open an
> > explorer windows showing the CD/DVD content instead of trying to
> > play its content. if I right-click on the drive in explorer while
> > CD/DVD is inserted, the default action is Expand and Play does not
> > even show
>
> > any idea ?
>
> Are you trying to play a movie?  Executable?  Music?

I would like to play a movie/listen to music but it seems that XP
(SP3) does not recognize the media as what they are and treat them as
data media instead of what they are.
if I manually run Media Player or any software DVD player, I can play
movie/listen to music but the explorer seems not to "see" that I did
not inserted video/music medium

 

[HeyBub]

Pierre wrote:
> hi,
>
> when I insert a video DVD/CD-ROM in my DVD drive, XP open an explorer
> windows showing the CD/DVD content instead of trying to play its
> content. if I right-click on the drive in explorer while CD/DVD is
> inserted, the default action is Expand and Play does not even show
>
> any idea ?
>
> TIA, Pierre

Hold down the [Shift] key as you insert the CD (or maybe the [Ctrl] key, I
forget which]

 

[WCVanHorne]

I had the exact same problem and tried almost everything. Particularly
frustrating since I have 3 virtually identical boxes and only one was
acting up. What finally worked was method #3 here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330135

The one about setting "allocatecdroms" to "0".

Good luck!