Pre - recorded DVD's don't start playing automatically in Windows 10

[Kokopelli]

Hi. Back in the good old days of Windows 7, whenever I inserted a bought DVD - it just played! Since I was forced to Downgrade to Windows 10 they don't play anymore.

What to do?

Thank you.

[Cornucopia]

Autorun/autoplay was a known, exploited security risk, so Windows disabled some of the features. You can re-enable some/most of them, but at your own risk. Just google "autorun cd enable windows 10".

Make sure you set the autoplay's default for DVD disc loading/mounting to be a compatible DVD media player (e.g. Cyberlink PowerDVD, or even VLC), and you may also need to set something in that app startup settings.
You could/may want to do a similar thing for Audio CD disc loading/mounting.


Scott

[Kokopelli]

Thank you. What a boon it is to have King Microsoft look out for our welfare! I hate that company beyond words.

But thank you!

[4kblurayguru]

Thank you. What a boon it is to have King Microsoft look out for our welfare! I hate that company beyond words.

But thank you!

switch to linux, autoplay on cd/dvd no problem

[Kokopelli]

Switching to Linux is very tempting - I might just do that, Im so tired of MS anyway.