Hi Jacqueline, Sunday, January 4, 2004, 5:37:37 PM, you wrote: JM> A friend of mine has Windows XP Home edition the cds won't JM> initialize in the cdrom anymore we went into Systems - devices JM> it is enabled I was thinking I would have to go into the bios to JM> see if the cdrom is enabled --or is on auto I am still running JM> windows 2000 pro-- He used to put the cds in and they would start JM> up right away but now it won't do it anymore Have you got any JM> suggestions? Thanks -- Jackie It sounds like you're talking about auto-insert notification and/or auto-run. Open My Computer and double-click on the drive and see what happens. --Scott. Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.