Tweak Library – Suppresses the Media Change Notification

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Suppresses the Media Change Notification (MCN) message for particular CD-ROM drives.

This tweak can suppress the Media Change Notification (MCN) message for particular CD-ROM drives.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

Description:

CD-ROM insertion lets the system issue a message to media features, which activates Autoplay function. This media features remain disabled if they do not receive the message. There are some devices, which do not support these features because they recognize the loading of the media physically. Therefore, the system suppresses the message for these devices.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click to modify the expandable string value name "AutoRunAlwaysDisable”, in the right panel, to append the data value with the vendor or product name from the list of identified products and product groups.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

AutoRunAlwaysDisable

Data Type :

REG_EXPAND_SZ (Expandable String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Vendor or product identfiers.

Value Action :

Modified

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type 'regedit'.

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\], right-click on "AutoRunAlwaysDisable" and click on 'Modify'.

Finally, enter the value of vendor or product identfiers in the existing list and click on 'OK'.

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