Windows – How to stop Windows Media Player 12 auto playing CD’s

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I've set autoplay to "Take no action" on all devices and file types in Windows 7, but Windows Media Player 12 seems to completely ignore this. I can't find a setting in any of the media player options either.

How do I prevent Windows Media Player 12 autoplaying CD's?

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This is what i found when i googled for this problem, hope this works for you though this registry edit is meant for Windows Media Player 10:

I checked my other machine and found the same behavior described above when previously it did not autoplay a CD when Media Player 10 was open. So I poked around the registry and found that the CDAutoPlay key was set to 1 on both machines under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences]. I changed CDAutoPlay to 0 and things are as they were before. Hope this helps others users having the same issue.

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In case you have to add it, CDAutoPlay is a DWORD 32-bit value.

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