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Is there any way to keep my CD-R and DVD drives from winding up every
time I open Windows Explorer? What makes Windows decide to start the
drives? They take 10 seconds to wind up (sounding like a jet engine
the whole time), and Windows won't expand a file tree until they come
up to speed. There must be some way to turn this off. I don't think
it's a hardware issue.

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If its only ten seconds what does it matter?

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potnisanish@gmail.com wrote:
> If its only ten seconds what does it matter?
>

it's annoying and disrupts workflow.

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> Is there any way to keep my CD-R and DVD drives from winding up every
> time I open Windows Explorer? What makes Windows decide to start the
> drives? They take 10 seconds to wind up (sounding like a jet engine
> the whole time), and Windows won't expand a file tree until they come
> up to speed. There must be some way to turn this off. I don't think
> it's a hardware issue.

download TweakUI (google for it),

run TeakUI

go to My Computer, Drives,

untick your CD and DVD drives hit OK.

simple

dj

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On 1 Aug 2005 11:54:51 -0700, potnisanish@gmail.com wrote:

>If its only ten seconds what does it matter?

Try it with 8 CD's!
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On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:00:42 +0200 As Androids Dreamed Of Electric
Sheep and then Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@gmail.com> wrote :

>Is there any way to keep my CD-R and DVD drives from winding up every
>time I open Windows Explorer? What makes Windows decide to start the
>drives? They take 10 seconds to wind up (sounding like a jet engine
>the whole time), and Windows won't expand a file tree until they come
>up to speed. There must be some way to turn this off. I don't think
>it's a hardware issue.

Take the CDs/DVDs out?



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potnisanish@gmail.com writes:

> If its only ten seconds what does it matter?

A great many programs open an Explorer tree to find files, browse for
a file, etc., so it matters a great deal.

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Shep© wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:00:42 +0200 As Androids Dreamed Of Electric
> Sheep and then Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@gmail.com> wrote :
>
>
>>Is there any way to keep my CD-R and DVD drives from winding up every
>>time I open Windows Explorer? What makes Windows decide to start the
>>drives? They take 10 seconds to wind up (sounding like a jet engine
>>the whole time), and Windows won't expand a file tree until they come
>>up to speed. There must be some way to turn this off. I don't think
>>it's a hardware issue.
>
>
> Take the CDs/DVDs out?
>
>
>
* Click Start, click Run, type GPEDIT.MSC to open Group Policy in
the Microsoft Management Console.
* Double-click Computer Configuration, double-click Administrative
templates, double-click System, and then click Turnoff autoplay.
* The instructions on your screen describe how to configure this
setting. Click Properties to display the setting dialog.
* Click Enabled, and choose CD-ROM drives, then click OK, to stop
CD autoplay.
Graham

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Woodsy wrote:

> On 1 Aug 2005 11:54:51 -0700, potnisanish@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>>If its only ten seconds what does it matter?
>
>
> Try it with 8 CD's!

Yeah? And how did you manage get them to spin up sequentially instead of
all together?

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Mxsmanic wrote:

> Is there any way to keep my CD-R and DVD drives from winding up every
> time I open Windows Explorer?

Empty them.

> What makes Windows decide to start the
> drives?

Because when there's something in them there's something to 'explore'.

> They take 10 seconds to wind up (sounding like a jet engine
> the whole time), and Windows won't expand a file tree until they come
> up to speed. There must be some way to turn this off. I don't think
> it's a hardware issue.

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On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:20:38 -0500, David Maynard <nospam@private.net>
wrote:

>Woodsy wrote:
>
>> On 1 Aug 2005 11:54:51 -0700, potnisanish@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If its only ten seconds what does it matter?
>>
>>
>> Try it with 8 CD's!
>
>Yeah? And how did you manage get them to spin up sequentially instead of
>all together?
Use a PII.
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On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:20:38 -0500, David Maynard
<nospam@private.net> wrote:

>Woodsy wrote:
>
>> On 1 Aug 2005 11:54:51 -0700, potnisanish@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If its only ten seconds what does it matter?
>>
>>
>> Try it with 8 CD's!
>
>Yeah? And how did you manage get them to spin up sequentially instead of
>all together?

See like I vaguely recall windows queries one volume, and
waits till that one responds to query the next (or times
out?).

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On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 07:00:22 +0200, Mxsmanic
<mxsmanic@gmail.com> wrote:

>potnisanish@gmail.com writes:
>
>> If its only ten seconds what does it matter?
>
>A great many programs open an Explorer tree to find files, browse for
>a file, etc., so it matters a great deal.

Set up a server with the drives in it, networked.

Leave the CDs out of the box, access them virtually with
something like Daemon Tools or VirtualCD, etc. Daemon Tools
is among the best at doing so, but maybe someone knows of
one even better?

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Shep© writes:

> Take the CDs/DVDs out?

The CDs have to be loaded for the two games I have. It's a lot of
trouble to dig them out and load the CD drives each time I want to
play the games, and I don't use the drives often for anything else, so
I prefer to just leave the CDs there.

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kony writes:

> Set up a server with the drives in it, networked.
>
> Leave the CDs out of the box, access them virtually with
> something like Daemon Tools or VirtualCD, etc. Daemon Tools
> is among the best at doing so, but maybe someone knows of
> one even better?

The games that reference these CDs check to ensure that they are
indeed inserted in local drives.

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graham chapman writes:

> * Click Start, click Run, type GPEDIT.MSC to open Group Policy in
> the Microsoft Management Console.
> * Double-click Computer Configuration, double-click Administrative
> templates, double-click System, and then click Turnoff autoplay.
> * The instructions on your screen describe how to configure this
> setting. Click Properties to display the setting dialog.
> * Click Enabled, and choose CD-ROM drives, then click OK, to stop
> CD autoplay.

Autoplay is already turned off.