Tips & 

Windows 95 

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Music CDs and Autoplay
 

By default, Windows 95 is set up to automatically start the CD Player applet and begin playing a music CD as soon as it is inserted into the CD-ROM drive. This is set up in Windows 95 much like a file extension association. To change this, start Explorer, and select View/Options/File Type. Scroll through the list until you find a listing for Audio CDs. Highlight it, and select the Edit button. You'll see a panel showing the option 'play'. Select that, then click on the Edit button on this panel. Youll see the command that is invoked for that option. It is by default set to execute CDPLAYER.EXE with a command parm of '/play'. If you delete the entire line, then when an audio CD is inserted, nothing will happen. If you delete just the '/play' parm, then when an audio CD is inserted, the CD Player applet is started, but it does NOT immediately begin playing the CD.

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