Windows 10: Enabling Auto Play in WIN10 on an ACER laptop

My CD/DVD on my new ACER laptop with WIN10 will not auto play. I've turned on auto play in both Divice and Control Panel without result. Essential, because I paid $300 for a Rosetta Stone language course, and now can't use it. I'm 79 and prize my time because every passing day, there's less of it. It's been three months now I've been looking for a solution.
After research, I came across a HowToGeek article saying auto play may be disabled in gpedit.mcv. How to Enable, Disable, and Customize AutoPlay in Windows 10
I thought if that were the case, I could re-enable it.
But, Win10 said gpedit.mcv is not available. More searching and I found a way to add gpedit.mcv, except the command prompt says I need an advanced command prompt.
The author of adding the gpedit.mcv said davehc had found the way to add it, had written the code, and the user could have it by clicking on "download here" but I couldn't locate the link. Add GPEDIT.msc by Drudger on DeviantArt
I'm not computer savvy.
So, I'm turning to you. Can you help?

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w10 auto play dead

Hi,



Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to follow the below steps to turn on auto play for DVD and check if it helps.

• Press “Windows+X”.
• Go to “Control panel”.
• Click on “auto play”.
• Under the tab “choose what happens when you insert each type of media or device” check the box “Use auto play for all media and devices”.
• Then under the option DVD you can select the appropriate option and check if it helps.

Hope this information was helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.

 

Acer Laptops :are they crap ?

Acer makes a cheap prodcut period. They user lower end plastics, as well as assembly. (I hate working on Acer laptops)

If budget is an issue then get an acer... though for $50 more you could get a gateway that will smoke the acer in terms of quality.

For a laptop though i would suggest one of the DV7T's from HP or a Business class Toshiba/HP/IBM (not the lenovo branded, the Thinkpads)

 

AMD FX OC'ers Club

That's what the auto setting will do since you're over the 1333 mark it jumps to the next step which isn't listed or officially supported I assume by that ram.

At this point though I would suggest dropping the multi one step or .5 so that we can get something stable and possibly take the heat issue out of the picture for now.