Stop CD-Auto Detect

[xcellerate]

I'm not talking about the thing that pops up when you stick in a new CD. I'm talking about the cd's spinning up when you open My Computer, or open windows media player, or try to save a file and you click the drop down menu.


I'm tired of my computer locking up for 10 seconds, every time I do something because my computer tries to see what cds are in the drives.

 

[Barney Fife]

Does this happen with only one particular CD, or any CD?

If it does happen with only one CD try wiping CD gently with cotton cloth straight across the CD and not in circular motion.
If it happens with all CDs; check if activity light of CD blinks once CD is inserted.

Post back the results.

Good Luck.

 

[xcellerate]

it has nothing to do with the condition of the cd's. It's just when you open anything where it needs to display what is in the drives (like the my computer screen), it spins the cd's up to read them. It takes 10 seconds, but it gets REALLY annoying. It'll only do it if it hasn't checked the drives in 10 min or so, and I open something where it displays the drive's contents.

I dont give a **** what's in the drives, and I want it to stop doing it.

 

[Asus]

You can hold shift so it won't auto run when putting in a disc.

Or you can modify your registry so it will never auto run. For Windows XP anyway.
Windows key + R (run), type "regedit", go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/CDROM
change AutoRun to 0 in order disable.

FYI SATA optical drives don't freeze up your machine when the drive spins up like IDE CD-ROMs do. Think it's something with how the IDE controller works.

 

[Barney Fife]

Again: Does this happen whenever you insert a CD or open "My Computer" while a CD is in the ROM, or without any CD present?
Does this happen even when no CD is in the ROM?
Does this happen by itself without you?

All you babbling about is "Computer takes 10 seconds searching for CD-ROM" (Which computer must do whenever "My Computer" explorer is accessed" Sometimes when CD has too much scratches, fingerprints, dirt or the CD-ROM needs to be cleaned, has many executable programs saved in it "My Computer" will take a little longer than usual to access drive.

Am I making sense or I'm off the mark and misunderstood you?

Good Luck.

 

[xcellerate]

I guess nobody else has this problem....

I have 2 DVD drives. In one DVD drive is BF2 in the other DVD drive is Stalker.

I have 2 hard drives. One hard drive does windows/games/programs. The other hard drive does music/movies/pictures/porn/whatever.

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I'm working in photoshop, I go to save a picture to my hard drive, I click the drop down to select the hard drive I want...and the computer freezes and both DVD roms spin up to detect what DVD is in there....then the 2 dvd titles appear in my drop down menu, then I can click on the hard drive.

I'm trying to open a movie, so I go to my computer to select my movie hard drive...and the computer freezes and both DVD roms spin up to detect what DVD is in there....then the 2 dvd titles appear on my screen, then I can click my movie hard drive.

I go to open winamp in my Quick Launch bar, i accidentally click 'windows media player', WMP opens...and the computer freezes and both DVD roms spin up to detect what DVD is in there....then I can close WMP.

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Is that more clear? You think "oh 10 seconds, omg it's the apocalypse!" But it gets really frustrating, especially when I wake up late for class, need to print an essay and now my computer locks up for 10 seconds, because it has to detect the dvd's, which I don't even ****ing care about.

I guess there's really no way to turn it off, it just bugs the crap out of me. It totally locks up the computer, the ONLY thing I can do is move the mouse...and wait for it to read the disks.

I'm trying not to turn a mole hill into a mountain...at least not everest.

 

[Barney Fife]

I guess nobody else has this problem....

I have 2 DVD drives. In one DVD drive is BF2 in the other DVD drive is Stalker.

I have 2 hard drives. One hard drive does windows/games/programs. The other hard drive does music/movies/pictures/porn/whatever.

---------------------------Scenarios-------------

I'm working in photoshop, I go to save a picture to my hard drive, I click the drop down to select the hard drive I want...and the computer freezes and both DVD roms spin up to detect what DVD is in there....then the 2 dvd titles appear in my drop down menu, then I can click on the hard drive.

I'm trying to open a movie, so I go to my computer to select my movie hard drive...and the computer freezes and both DVD roms spin up to detect what DVD is in there....then the 2 dvd titles appear on my screen, then I can click my movie hard drive.

I go to open winamp in my Quick Launch bar, i accidentally click 'windows media player', WMP opens...and the computer freezes and both DVD roms spin up to detect what DVD is in there....then I can close WMP.

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Is that more clear? You think "oh 10 seconds, omg it's the apocalypse!" But it gets really frustrating, especially when I wake up late for class, need to print an essay and now my computer locks up for 10 seconds, because it has to detect the dvd's, which I don't even ****ing care about.

I guess there's really no way to turn it off, it just bugs the crap out of me. It totally locks up the computer, the ONLY thing I can do is move the mouse...and wait for it to read the disks.

I'm trying not to turn a mole hill into a mountain...at least not everest.

OK tell us about your system spec.

probable causes:

System resource is insufficient.

whenever you do all of the above scenario, computer must search all available drives and their information.
Take out both CD/DVDs and perform the above mentioned scenario, let us know what happens.
all of the above mentioned scenario happens in any given computer when the same scenario procedure is done, some take longer than others depending on the speed and resource available to the system.

Good Luck.

 

[VirusType2]

I guess nobody else has this problem....

I have 2 DVD drives. In one DVD drive is BF2 in the other DVD drive is Stalker.

I have 2 hard drives. One hard drive does windows/games/programs. The other hard drive does music/movies/pictures/porn/whatever.

---------------------------Scenarios-------------

I'm working in photoshop, I go to save a picture to my hard drive, I click the drop down to select the hard drive I want...and the computer freezes and both DVD roms spin up to detect what DVD is in there....then the 2 dvd titles appear in my drop down menu, then I can click on the hard drive.

I'm trying to open a movie, so I go to my computer to select my movie hard drive...and the computer freezes and both DVD roms spin up to detect what DVD is in there....then the 2 dvd titles appear on my screen, then I can click my movie hard drive.

I go to open winamp in my Quick Launch bar, i accidentally click 'windows media player', WMP opens...and the computer freezes and both DVD roms spin up to detect what DVD is in there....then I can close WMP.

---------------------------------------------------------

Is that more clear? You think "oh 10 seconds, omg it's the apocalypse!" But it gets really frustrating, especially when I wake up late for class, need to print an essay and now my computer locks up for 10 seconds, because it has to detect the dvd's, which I don't even ****ing care about.

I guess there's really no way to turn it off, it just bugs the crap out of me. It totally locks up the computer, the ONLY thing I can do is move the mouse...and wait for it to read the disks.

I'm trying not to turn a mole hill into a mountain...at least not everest.

I have the same thing. When I click SendTo... (like If I want to move a file to a particular folder) it will check my drive. When I open my media player to play an MP3 thats already on my hard drive, it will check my DVD drive. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I'm not sure if it checks the drive when I try to save a file - not that I remember. It also checks the DVD drive when I boot the machine, even though it is last on the boot list, and there is no problem with the boot harddrive.

mine doesn't take 10 seconds, it takes only a few, but it pisses me off. Don't check my ****ing drive, I will tell you when to check the drive you stupid ****ing machine. :angry: It annoys me because it's noisy, it makes me wait, even though I shouldn't have to, and then it leaves my disk spinning for a minute or two for no reason. The only solution I have is to download the crack for those games so you don't need the disk in the drive anymore. Why is hacking and warezing always so ****ing rewarding, and the more honest people like us have to suffer.

If you find any software that alleviates this problem, be sure to let me know.