I was reading aDVD-Guideand it suggested to disable your auto run because it could possibly...
Quote:NOTE: Before you're going to rip any DVDs/movies or insert any original DVDs into your drive, let's "disable AutoRun" (this is highly recommend) to prevent from getting hijacked by Settec's Alpha-DVD protection. Some DVDs will install bunch of craps into your system without your consent if you have AutoRun turn "On" and it will abort or crash your system when it's transcoding or burning. In addition, it even goes as far as removing your burners, etc.
I was just wondering is that likely to happen and do you reccommend doing it? When I did this and opened DVDFab I could not locate the DVD that was in the drive, however I could for my external device. So I took it off and it worked fine. When I would click on that drive it would say it was empty but was of course not.
Instructions were...
Quote:How to Disable Autorun via Win XP Pro
(01) click on Start
(02) Run, then type regedit then click OK (yes... exactly like this)
(03) click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
(04) click SYSTEM, then CurrentControlSet
(05) click on Services
(06) highlight the folder on Cdrom
(07) right click on "AutoRun" on the right hand panel
(08) then choose Modify and change the Value Data to 0 (zero), click OK
(09) now EXIT out from regedit
(10) restart your computer/system and you'll be fine, AutoRun has been disabled.
