After installing or upgrading to Windows 7, you may notice that the AutoPlay dialog does not list Windows Media Center as one of the options.
This is the case when you open Change AutoPlay settings applet in Control Panel.
Windows 7 does not seem to include the Windows Media Center AutoPlay registry entries by default. However, you can add the necessary entries manually or export the keys from a Windows Vista PC (which is what I did). The AutoPlay entries are populated from this registry branch:
Tip: Keys and Values starting with the word "EHome" (EHomeDVDDropTarget, EHomeMusicDropTarget, EHomePhotosHandler, EHomeSVCDDropTarget, EHomeVCDDropTarget, EHomeVideosHandler) are the ones we need.
I’ve made available a REG file which adds all of the Windows Media Center AutoPlay handler entries to the registry.
Registry Fix
Download w7-ehome-autoplay.zip, and save to Desktop. Unzip and run the enclosed REG file.
Windows Media Center is now added to the AutoPlay dialog!
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You have won my ‘You are Da Man!” award for today with this easy-to-follow, yet time consumming solutions for newbies and not-so newbies. Thanks!!!
Thank you very much. It’s good to see the media center icon back home wher it belongs. It’s people like you that still give me hope.
Just installed Windows 7 and had some troubles like this one. Thanks very much. Next problem is to move the Deamon tools loader which is in extra to another position.
[...] so it’s probably easier to download the .REG file from him. Take a look at Srinivasan’s Winhelponline to find out [...]
thank you very much. but you can do it with blu ray also. hope it is also possible
Thanks for the oh sooooooo helpful Reg fix .zip to easily sort the problem. I’m always amazed at how helpful good many of you are. Eternal THANKS (and worship) from me and I’ll bet so many others who will find and bless your help without you ever knowing.
THANK YOU again and the’ll always be a pint or two waiting for you in Bournemouth if you ever want it. Thanks ANGELS.
(How come MS can be just so short-sighted, don’t actually they ever use their own products? I’m an ordinary ‘Jo’ but found the problem at the end of my first Win 7 setup – what kind of testing do MS undertake – wake up MS, this isn’t good enough for 2010!!??).
ve only been setting up my first Win 7 machine and came accross the problem immediately at the end)