could you elaborate? that didnt make much sense :P

insert CD into drive ... nothing happens
why ? - its not mounted
only mounts one time on boot
manual mount works ... can read CD but does not actualise rest of windows ..
autostart is turned on but does not work since the cd is not mounted

so you cannot acces a cd when you insert it into your drive?
or is it that autorun doesnt start whatever it is that's on the cd?

:hmm: ?
I can acess the CD but its not automatically mounted ...
mounted = analyse what is in the drive ...
there is no autorun because its not mounted ... windows does simply not know there is a new CD since it does not mount
If I manually open the CD drive via workspace ... manual mount happens and I can read content but only that ... the icon for CD Drive will not change and not autorun will start since the manual mount does only show files nothin more

mhh....
maybe u should try number "234" here
it´s a reg-tweak for "AutoPlay Repair Tool"

i dunno, but u can try it or not :-)

Hey Biene ...
THX very much for that tip ...
that tool first looked disappointing sicne it did analyse autostart first ... and as I did know everything was OK ... but then the tool got more into detail and found out some group policies missing ...
I hit FIX and after restart BANG ITS MOUNTING AGAIN !!!!
gosu gosu gosu ....
btw don't ask me how they got lost must be some tool having this deleted

here is the log

AutoFix [V5.2.3790.67]
Time [2004-05-03 21:08:22]
Microsoft Windows Version [5.1 (Service Pack 2, v.2096) <2600>]

Test [The Shell Hardware Detection service is running.] - Instance [N/A]:
Result [AutoStart Setting]: OK
Result [The Shell Hardware Detection service is running.]: OK

Test [Policies] - Instance [G:, Drive Type: 5]:
Result [HKCU...Policies!NoDrives]: OK {Absent}
Result [HKCU...Policies!NoDriveAutorun]: OK {Absent}
Result [HKCU...Policies!NoDriveTypeAutorun]: OK {Present}
Result [HKLM...Policies!NoDrives]: OK {Absent}
Result [HKLM...Policies!NoDriveAutorun]: OK {Absent}
Result [HKLM...Policies!NoDriveTypeAutorun]: OK {Absent}
Result [Driver level policies]: Problems {
HKLM...Servicescdrom!Autorun (Present)
HKLM...ServicescdromParameters!Autorun (Absent)
HKLMSystemCCSEnum...!AlwaysEnable (Absent)
HKLMSystemCCSEnum...!AlwaysDisable (Absent) }
>> Repair << [HKLM...Servicescdrom!Autorun]
Step: Resetting policy HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicescdrom!Autorun to 0x00000001.
Result: This AutoPlay setting was successfully fixed.

>> Required action: The computer must be restarted

he did this for all rives at once