Fixing autoplay issues (no notifications showing)

[demonix]

When I got my laptop (originally had windows 7 installed) everything was fine with autoplay as I was getting the correct notifications whenever I was putting in a CD/DVD or USB drive (I think), but after a while the notifications stopped appearing (I thought it might have been an update that did it) and it has migrated over to windows 8 after I upgraded.

I have a feeling that some setting in the registry (since all the settings in the autoplay section seem to be okay) has been altered as autoplay notifications on my fathers windows 8 install are showing properly (doing a refresh or any form of re-install of windows 8 is out of the question because of some activation problems (meaning it might class the refresh as a new system meaning I'd lose one of my five activated system licenses on two games) I might have with some games).

 

[bledd]

Click start, type 'autoplay', click the 'settings' filter, then click autoplay

 

[demonix]

Click start, type 'autoplay', click the 'settings' filter, then click autoplay

None of those settings have been altered since I got the laptop (that was my first port of call which I'd already mentioned) which is why I suspected something else had been changed without my knowledge.

 

[demonix]

A little bit more googling gave me a bit more information and confirmed what I thought was the problem as autoplay was somehow disabled in the registry, and I'll have to change that setting to restore it to the default setting.