Not sure who's having the problem, but if you go to the properties for the 
drive, there is a tab with all that info for most file types. Audio CD's 
should play in windows media player unless that was reassigned to another 
program. There is no more direct hookup to the sound card like there used to 
be anymore.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: disk drive


> It also could be that some of his auto start options have gotten turned 
> off
> so that CDs must be started manually.  If you go into the properties for
> the CD drive, I believe there is a page where those things can be set.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 06:27 AM 11/16/2008 -0600, you wrote:
>>not playing music cd's isn't usually critical, but if you can't install
>>software, that is a problem.  First let's see what discs will and won't be
>>navigable by your computer.  That is a windows explorer question.  Then we
>>need to know which will and won't play load, or act as they should.  If 
>>the
>>problem is only audio cd's, then it's necessary to find which programs and
>>audio settings are being applied for audio disks.  I'll bet on a program 
>>or
>>audio setting.  Most likely the cd's are playing just fine, but the volume
>>is muted or turned way down.
>>
>>H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
>>
>>
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