How do you keep the DVD drive from opening when you get the message "please insert a disk into drive"? [duplicate]
In Windows Explorer, when I click on the drive that happens to be my cd/dvd drive, I get the message "please insert a disk into drive", which might be OK, but then the DVD drive opens and I have to close it. I consider this very rude and I do not like it. Is there a way I can keep the DVD drive from opening when it is empty and Windows tries to access it?
You can effectively stop the 'rude' auto eject behavior by disabling the built-in CD burning settings.
Quick Solution:
- Set the following value in the Registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoCDBurning"=dword:00000001
Solution:
-
Open the Local Group Policy Editor (
gpedit.msc
). -
Navigate to
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer
. -
Find and double click the
Remove CD Burning features
setting. -
Change the setting to
Enabled
, and clickOkay
. -
Log off and then log back in.
Before:
-
Context menu (notice the
Burn to disc
option). -
When we double click the drive, this message pops up and the disc tray pops open. >:(
After:
-
CD Burning has been disabled. (The
Format...
option is gone, too...) -
When we double click the drive, the disc tray does not eject! :D (I don't know why they changed the spelling of 'disc'...)