Windows CD spin-up

Everytime I click on Windows Explorer, there's an annoying pause while my PC spins up the CD drives to see what's in them. Is there any kind of way to avoid this spin-up delay? You'd think that since windows checks every time a new CD is inserted, it'd remember what CD was in the drive.

-Clay

the obvious answer is to remove cd's when not being used. :)

Try turning off the indexing service.

Or take the CD out when not in use.

OR

the obvious answer is to remove cd's when not being used.

Heh, didn't read your post...kind of saw the index thing and skimmed.

:o

Or

Take the CD out when not in use

Another thought would be to take the CD out when not in use.

Just a thought...

Hey, did anyone think about taking the CD out??

Windows will check cdrom unless you take the following actions:


goto your administrative tools and disable "Creative Service for CDROM access" if you have it.

Then via start/run regedit find this Key:

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\currentControlSet\Servi ces\CdRom\" change autorun to "0"

Then goto start run "msconfig" check out your STARTUP and make sure your familar with whats there. sometimes nero or creative etc will start cdchecking stuff with windows. You can uncheck anything you dont use anymore for more sys perf and quicker startup times.

Thanks cruize, I'll see what the autorun thing does for me. None of the others applied.