# Microsoft Games

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-games/85513>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 5, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-games/85513 "2001-10-05T03:35:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![cw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@cw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cw)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-games/85513/1 "2001-10-05T03:35:01Z")

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Is there a way to keep Microsoft games, such as Mechwarrior 4, from starting when I insert the C.D. I have the option for the cd-rom to not start automatically set, but seems that any game made by Microsoft starts on its own anyway. Not a big deal, but it is annoying.

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**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-games/85513/2 "2001-10-05T03:40:43Z")

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Coordinate the times that you want to play MW4 with the times that you insert the MW4 disk and hopefully that should alleviate your troubles.

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**Author:** ![cw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@cw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cw)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-games/85513/3 "2001-10-05T03:44:00Z")

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Gee, thanks. I just want to know because sometimes I forget to insert the c.d. when playing online and when I put it in it it automatically starts, interupting the pre-game chat.

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**Author:** ![Chrome\_Toaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Chrome\_Toaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chrome_Toaster)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-games/85513/4 "2001-10-05T04:00:52Z")

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Try holding down the left shift key when you put the cd in the drive. That should keep it from auto running.

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**Author:** ![cw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@cw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cw)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-games/85513/5 "2001-10-05T04:18:31Z")

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Thanks toaster, I have tried that before but it seems like I did something like alt+shift, anyways just shift works, thanks again

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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-games/85513/6 "2001-10-05T07:35:17Z")

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You can also download TweakUI from Microsoft - it allows you to permanently disable this “Autorun” feature, along with lots of other cool stuff that should have been included in the OS.

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**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-games/85513/7 "2001-10-05T13:33:32Z")

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If you go to the device manager and look at the properties of your CD, you can disable auto insert notification. Does the same thing.