Hi guys, I am "kinda" having a problem with my WinDVD 3.0 program. My problem is that I can't use "autoplay" feature from WinDVD. What happens is that whenever I insert a DVD movie, I get this dialog box from Win2k: "Desktop: Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied." So I click "OK" button and WinDVD program would load and try to play my DVD movie (I could hear my DVD drive spinning and stuff) and then WinDVD program would stop responding. The only way I can get my DVD movie to play with WinDVD 3.0 is to run WinDVD first and then insert the DVD.

My theory as to why WinDVD stopped responding is that dvdplay (Built-in software DVD player from Win2k under c:\winnt\system32) and WinDVD 3.0 are both trying to play DVD movie when I insert a DVD in the drive. Before I had WinDVD 3.0 installed on my system, when I insert a DVD movie, Win2k's DVDPLAY program will play the movie automatically.

So, anybody got an idea on how to disable DVDPLAY? I don't want it to play my DVD movies whenever I insert a DVD movie in the drive.

you can check the correct program is set up by going into folder options->file types.... DVD is the third one down in my list.

also, as a troubleshooting step, try renaming the dvdplay.exe file to something else and then try it. if you still have the problem, then it can't be dvdplay's fault....

Ok, I will try your method. I will post back the results.

Hmm...this is strange. I renamed "dvdplay.exe" to "dvdplay_pos.exe" and tried playing DVD. Guess what? I still get the message "Desktop: Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied." Then I went back to C:\winnt\system32 to check the dvdplay_pos.exe file. Seems that Winnt restored dvdplay.exe file. Now, I have dvdplay.exe and dvdplay_pos.exe. Oh well...