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Optical drive auto play glitch
I have a strange issue in that my optical disks do not auto play unless I open 'this pc' / explorer which seems to kickstart them into life! Even being in explorer doesn't work upon inserting a cd or DVD - I have to close the window and re-open it to trigger auto play. I can easily circumvent the issue, I use slysoft's AnyDVD and as long as I start it so it resides in my system tray and is active the auto play then functions normally.
i strongly suspect realplayer (or as it is now known 'realtimes') has introduced this issue. It's actually a bit of a nightmare piece of software but I only use it because it is able to latch into YouTube for all browsers (including edge) to be able to download YouTube videos. So it's good from that respect. I think it's presence though has unsettled autoplay.
like I say I can get around it easily. I suspect any piece of software resident in the tray that looks at / or scans optical discs would alleviate the issue (in my case it just so happens to be AnyDVD).
But my question is, has anybody else seen this behaviour and how did they get round it? I know the obvious is to uninstall realtimes but I would like to keep the function of being able to download YouTube videos - even using edge. So if there are other thoughts or suggestions I would be interested to hear them. I expect this not to be something many, if at all, have run into purely because the user base of real player / real times is pretty small.
It's worth also adding that this anamoly is totally isolated to optical discs. Autoplay for things like USB drives and memory cards is totally unaffected and behaves totally normal.
cheers, Wayne