How to Have CD or DVD Automatically Start to Play on Your PC

Do you primarily use your media drives to play CDs and DVDs? Do you ever get tired of having Windows ask you what you want to do when you pop in the disc?

You can tell Windows to automatically play that CD or DVD as soon as you put it in the drive! How? By activating Window’s AutoPlay feature. Follow these steps:

1. On your Windows PC, get into Windows Explorer, also called My Computer or Computer.
2. Find the CD or DVD drive on which you would like a CD or DVD to automatically play upon insertion into the drive.
3. Right-click on the drive and click Properties.
4. Click the AutoPlay tab at the top of the window.
5. Under Actions, click “Select an action to perform.”
6. Click on the action to perform. If you have multiple media players on your PC, you must choose one.
7. Click Apply, and click OK.

If you have two drives, repeat the steps above for the other drive.

Now, whenever you put that CD or DVD into the drive, it should automatically begin to play.

Won't it be nice to not have that annoying small window popping up every time you insert a CD or DVD asking you what you want to do?

Cheers!

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