I will try this tonite. Last nite Dell support told me autorun does not
automatically start a Cd that has an autorun.inf file, the CD was working
properly, and any other questions should be directed to Microsoft. Basically
told me this was a software issue, XP does not provide an autorun function
except for playing music cd's.

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

> Start\Run and type in eventvwr.msc
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> Peter
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> "dgfullin" <dgfullin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7A442750-0763-48D2-BFF8-8C8A2BFF6C12@microsoft.com...
> >I am new to XP and do not know where the event viewer is located. Will be
> > happy to look if directed to it.
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > "Peter Foldes" wrote:
> >
> >> Any error message in the event viewer by any chance. Can you post it here
> >>
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> >> Peter
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> >> "dgfullin" <dgfullin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:33B0A0DA-1F68-4532-ACD8-605F08C9CB3A@microsoft.com...
> >> >I just got a new machine and am running XP pro. I tied to install office, but
> >> > I put in the disk and nothing. i searched for help and opened my computer,
> >> > clicked on the writer and turned on autoplay. Put disk back in and now it
> >> > spins, but doesn't come up into install mode. Using Windows explorer I can do
> >> > this manually. My 2000 machine never did this, just came up and played. Any
> >> > suggestions?
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >>
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