Question DVD won't auto start in Windows 11

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ingeborgdot

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I get this message when trying to play a video I had from several years ago. It is not a movie, but a homemade one.

the file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action. Please install an app or, if one is already installed, create an association in the default apps setting page.

This is Windows 11. What can I do. I have been looking on Google but have not found anything to help.

 

bba-tcg

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• Wednesday at 2:06 PM

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Tried installing something like VLC Media Player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

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I have VLC. It will play, but if I click on the Drive G icon for the drive and the DVD, it gives me that message. I can play it if I open up the DVD, but not unless I do that. Nothing is auto.

 

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• Wednesday at 4:41 PM

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ingeborgdot said:

I have VLC. It will play, but if I click on the Drive G icon for the drive and the DVD, it gives me that message. I can play it if I open up the DVD, but not unless I do that. Nothing is auto.

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Tried setting it here?

 

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I have tried that. I put the removable drive to ask me every time and that didn't work. I put it on open folder to view files and that didn't work. Hey, I guess it is what it is. Thanks.

 

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• Wednesday at 4:49 PM

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ingeborgdot said:

I have tried that. I put the removable drive to ask me every time and that didn't work. I put it on open folder to view files and that didn't work. Hey, I guess it is what it is. Thanks.

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Did you associate the file type you're trying to run with VLC?

 

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If you mean open with VLC, yes.

 

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ingeborgdot said:

If you mean open with VLC, yes.

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Okay. Just curious since that's the message in your original post.

 

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I don't think that you are going to get a DVD to autorun in Win 11 w/o buying an app. As far as I know, VLC doesn't support autorun and Win 11 doesn't support DVDs natively.

A work around is to open the file through VLC's command line interface via a batch file and put the batch file or a shortcut to it on the desktop.

See:

Documentation:Command line - VideoLAN Wiki

wiki.videolan.org