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hp Compaq Presario w/ 32bit Vista, running Internet Explorer, When I inserted sd memory card from digital camera into left hand slot, Media Center always automatically opened and downloaded the pictures. When a movie cd was inserted into the cd player, it always automatically played the movie full screen.

Now to download pictures I have to go into Media Center and manually download the pictures. When a movie cd is inserted into the player I have to go into Media Center and manually start the movie playing and it only plays 6″x 6″ picture in the middle of a 15″ screen. I cannot get it to play automatically or full screen. Both of these started at the same time.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, Jeff

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Go into Control Panel and check your AutoPlay settings. (If in “Vista” view, it’s under “Hardware and Sound > Play CDs or other Media Automatically”; in “Classic View”, it’s just titled “AutoPlay”.) That will let you set the default actions for several things. It’s possible that a software install, an update or even a simple unnoticed mis-click could have gotten them out of whack. Or, just because Vista does strange things sometimes. Hope that helps!

Christa

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Christa, Thank You for your time and your answer. I did what you said and changed settings back where I had them originally and both operations began starting automatically again. Down in the right lower screen, when I had my mouse pointer down there during dvd play, an option appears, for screen size, during play. I changed it and the full screen is back. Thank you and Windows Lounge for your help, Jeff

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You’re welcome! Glad it worked for you, and I’m glad you were able to get the full-screen working again.

Christa

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