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I'm very new to newsgroups and could not find a newsgroup for XP Registry  
  
help other than a german MSN newsgroup.  There must be one for english  
  
speaking posters, but I am stumped.  Can someone please point me in the  
  
right direction?  I'd appreciate it - thanks.

This is the right group.  
  
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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.  
  
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"Johnny Bravo" wrote:

Thanks Dave, I just wanted to make sure of that before proceeding because I  
  
know MS made some changes in the XP registry versus Win2000 and wasn't sure  
  
if this was the proper newsgroup.  
  
Anyway, here's my problem:  
  
I'm trying to make the CD Player that comes with W2K the default player for  
  
..cda files (music CDs) on my computer.   I used to run W2K and so I copied  
  
that application (CDPlayer.exe) onto my XP partition, but the registry tweak  
  
I made isn't working for some reason. The player opens up fine when I double  
  
click on the shortcut, but it doesn't auto-play when I pop in a music CD.  
  
These are the 3 changes I made thus far:  
  
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cda\OpenWithList\  
  
Added a subkey for 'CDPlayer.exe'  
  
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cdafile\shell\play\command  
  
Changed the default value to: %SystemRoot%\system32\CDPlayer.exe "%L", /Play  
  
When this didn't work, I added a subkey 'CDPlayer.exe' under:  
  
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications  
  
None of this has worked thus far.   I keep getting a windows popup box  
  
asking me to choose from a list of applications and the CD Player I copied  
  
over from my W2K is not even listed among the choices.  It's not an  
  
"autoplay" problem because I am logged in as the Admin when doing so.  
  
What have I missed?  I'm completely stumped.  
  
John  
  
"Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@nOsPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message  
  
news:O139BxOtFHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

From a command prompt;  
  
C:\>assoc .cda  
  
returns with  
  
..cda=CDAFile  
  
C:\>ftype cdafile  
  
returns with  
  
cdafile="C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe"  /Open "%L"  
  
So possibly;  
  
ftype cdafile="C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\CDPlayer.exe"  /Open  
  
"%L"  
  
but be sure to also copy and register any required libraries for the  
  
application beforehand. You can use the support tool 'depends.exe' to help  
  
you with this.  
  
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q301423/  
  
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Regards,  
  
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.  
  
Microsoft Certified Professional  
  
Microsoft MVP [Windows]  
  
http://www.microsoft.com/protect  
  
"Johnny Bravo" wrote:  
  
I  
  
sure  
  
for  
  
tweak  
  
double  
  
/Play

Dave, that method doesn't work. I just tried it.  
  
Let me provide some further information.  
  
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CDAudioPlayer.CDAudioPlayer.1\CLSID  
  
In the above subkey, there is a default value in the right hand pane:  
  
{FDE1F5C0-0EE9-11d4-A66D-00AA00BA6958}  
  
When I did a search on that CLSID, it led me to this:  
  
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FDE1F5C0-0EE9-11d4-A66D-00AA00BA6958}  
  
Under that subkey, there were 4 other subkeys listed.  
  
a) InProcServer32  
  
b) ProgID  
  
c) Programmable  
  
d) VersionIndependentProgID  
  
Didn't find anything interesting in b, c, d.  But in a) i found a value  
  
pointing to dynamic link file tied into my Creative Media Player application  
  
which was what was originally set to play my music CDs.  So I backed up that  
  
subkey and then overwrote that default value and changed it to match my CDA  
  
file subkey  
  
%SystemRoot%\system32\CDPlayer.exe  
  
It still did not work.  I think instead of an executable, it's expecting a  
  
DLL file that's associated w/ the CDPlayer.  If i knew what DLL file to copy  
  
over from my Win2000, it might work possibly.  But I have no way of knowing  
  
what that is.  Is there a DLL file assoc. w/ CDPlayer??  
  
John  
  
"Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@nOsPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message  
  
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Yes I'm sure there is. Use depends.exe to find them. I wouldn't hold much  
  
hope for this ever working without breaking other things.  
  
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Regards,  
  
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.  
  
Microsoft Certified Professional  
  
Microsoft MVP [Windows]  
  
http://www.microsoft.com/protect  
  
"Johnny Bravo" wrote:  
  
application  
  
that  
  
CDA  
  
copy  
  
knowing