Being the boss of your Optical drives
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Being the boss of your Optical drives
How does one adjust the spin down time of optical drives in winXP?
Is it in the registry?
Hidden in some obscure settings file?
When XP loads the optical drives spins up to full speed, and sits there until about 1 min after the OS is full loaded. It then "spins down".
I'd really prefer the optical drive spins up only when accessed. WinXP will initially access all drives on boot, but I'd like to reduce the time to spin down.
I tried using the Nero SpeedDisk Utility, and while it would adjust my spin rate(40X, 4X etc), the option to adjust the spin down from minutes to seconds to microseconds, just didnt seem to work.
I found the master setting for turning off "autoplay".
from cmd prompt, GPEDIT.MSC (group policy editor)
There is a list of master settings, one is enable/disable autoplay.
You can also adjust individual profiles, but this setting effects them all.
Is it in the registry?
Hidden in some obscure settings file?
When XP loads the optical drives spins up to full speed, and sits there until about 1 min after the OS is full loaded. It then "spins down".
I'd really prefer the optical drive spins up only when accessed. WinXP will initially access all drives on boot, but I'd like to reduce the time to spin down.
I tried using the Nero SpeedDisk Utility, and while it would adjust my spin rate(40X, 4X etc), the option to adjust the spin down from minutes to seconds to microseconds, just didnt seem to work.
I found the master setting for turning off "autoplay".
from cmd prompt, GPEDIT.MSC (group policy editor)
There is a list of master settings, one is enable/disable autoplay.
You can also adjust individual profiles, but this setting effects them all.
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The "AUTOPLAY" option you've found is nothign to do with spin-down time.
Though if someone DOES know of that setting, I'm curious too .
The AUTOPLAY option is purely for "when you put a CD into the DVD/CD-ROM" that Windows tries to automatically run it - ergo, run "AUTORUN.INF" or presents you with that irritating (if XP) dialogue "what should I DO?"
Hope this helps a little. If only to point out that you're on the wrong track.
Though if someone DOES know of that setting, I'm curious too .
The AUTOPLAY option is purely for "when you put a CD into the DVD/CD-ROM" that Windows tries to automatically run it - ergo, run "AUTORUN.INF" or presents you with that irritating (if XP) dialogue "what should I DO?"
Hope this helps a little. If only to point out that you're on the wrong track.
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Ahhhh - RIGHT.
As luck would have it, I have followed a hunch that I'd had saved an e-mail somewhere on JUST this subject. And, indeed, I have found it. Here's the contents .
The XP Pro stuff DEFINATELY works, I've used this myself.
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XP Home:
Go to Regedit - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer
Create a new value called: NoDriveTypeAutoRun
Type is: DWORD
Value is: 0x000000b5 (181)
And may need to Restart.
XP Pro
Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC
On the left - Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System
Find the line that says "Turn AutoPlay Off" - Double click it and change to Enable.
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Enjoy .
- Shathal.
As luck would have it, I have followed a hunch that I'd had saved an e-mail somewhere on JUST this subject. And, indeed, I have found it. Here's the contents .
The XP Pro stuff DEFINATELY works, I've used this myself.
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XP Home:
Go to Regedit - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer
Create a new value called: NoDriveTypeAutoRun
Type is: DWORD
Value is: 0x000000b5 (181)
And may need to Restart.
XP Pro
Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC
On the left - Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System
Find the line that says "Turn AutoPlay Off" - Double click it and change to Enable.
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Enjoy .
- Shathal.