Windows tips #1 - Disable auto-eject CD/DVD

in #windows7 years ago

Did you ever happen to click CD/DVD drive letter in windows explorer and by doing so, open the CD/DVD tray, or you might have by accident placed files into a burning schedule, especially if you have children that use the same computer. 

To avoid all this problems and to disable auto-eject and Windows burning feature, there are several methods. 

For Windows 7 and 8, you can use small utility called Disable Auto Eject from following link: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/how-to-easily-disable-cd-or-dvd-auto-eject-in-windows-vista/ 

For windows 10, you have to do following: 

  1. Bring RUN command line by holding "WINDOWS key" and pressing "R". 
  2. Open the registry editor by typing "regedit" and pressing "ENTER" button. 
  3. Find: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE if you want to disable feature for all users, or HKEY_CURRENT_USER to disable the option just for currently logged on user. 
  4. Open path: Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies > Explorer 
  5. Look for entry key “NoCDBurning”. If it's not there, create new DWORD value in the Explorer folder named "NoCDBurning " (Right mouse button on Explorer entry in left window or right click on white area below last entry in right window, select EDIT or NEW and select DWORD option). 
  6. Edit new entry and name it "NoCDBurning" 
  7. Double-click on “NoCDBurning” entry and give it a value of 1 to disable CD/DVD burning or 0 to enable it. 

For CD/DVD burning, you can use free tool CDBurnerXP from link: https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home