How to get this off...

The Alcohol and the Roxio, how do I get that off? I've deleted all the files, any way to get that off?

Thanks.

 

Did you uninstall the applications? If so, try running CCleaner.

 

Look here in the registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ AutoplayHandlers \ Handlers \ <handler>

Remove the ones for Alcohol and Roxio. You can tell by either the ActionName value or the other values in the right window when you click on a key.

 

I found Alchol, but no Roxio. Hmm.

 

run a registry cleaner like regcure. it may find the keys.

 

Try looking under "EventHandlers" instead of Handlers. It might be different, and called "Events", it's eventhandlers under Vista x64.

 

if the registry scares you, download

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/autoplayhandlers.htm

 

Hmm, I got Alcohol off completely. I went to those places in the registry, but I couldn't find anything. No "Roxio," or even "Events."

I have x64 btw.

 

in Vista x64, it's not the same path.

Try

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\Handlers

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\EventHandlers

 

I followed both of those paths, nothing for Roxio. I checked all the entries to make sure.

This is weird. =/

 

unfortunately i have the same problem

 

Sure is weird.

Did you do a search for roxio in the registry?

 

Lol,just search Roxio in the registry and match it to handlers or similar, as Goofball said.

 

Well I deleted everything in the registry that has to do with Roxio. There's this one that I delete and it goes to "Value not set." When I search for more Roxio stuff, the same registry comes up.

Hmm.

 

Try Registrar Lite to get rid of the registry entries that will not delete.

 

Try all the registry cleaners you can. One of them is bound to delete those entries

 

i had the same problem with photoshop in the autoplay menu, but then one day it just disappeared from the menu (maybe CCleaner?)

 

How about HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...?

 

If you look at Blacklight's picture, it is not Roxio he is having the problem with...but nero, so it is pointless to tell him to look for Roxio. He is having a simlar problem, not the same problem.

Registry cleaners are of dubious value.

There is a right way and wrong way to do things--just deleting things willy nilly is the wrong way.

Troubleshooting takes a methodic approach and some clarity of thought.

There are three places this setting comes from

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\AutoplayHandlers\EventHandlers

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\AutoplayHandlers\Handlers

It is usually more helpful to look for the name of the program file than the general name.

For example, the executable for Roxio Media Experience is DMX.exe. The reason that you are seeing a generic icon there is that you still have a path set in the registry to a file that no longer exists.

that path is
C:\Program Files\Roxio\Media Experience\DMX.exe

Somewhere within a generic looking folder in one of the above keys you will find a stringvalue with a name of DefaultIcon and a value of "C:\Program Files\Roxio\Media Experience\DMX.exe"--this is the key you want to delete.

For the other user, I believe that NeroExpress executable is nero.exe, and the smartstart executable is Nero SmartStart.exe...