Where is the default DVD player in the Registry?

[dbminter]

Where is the fucking thing? I THOUGHT I knew where it goddamned was, but, of course, my fix isn't working anymore.

 

 

It seems that the File Type DVD Video in the Folder Settings is the DVD Player, but, DVD Video seems to call Play as the default, or whatever else may be set, such as Play With PowerDVD. And, those are stored, well, any fucking where. Plus, there are about 2 or 3 redundant copies of those keys that have nothing to do with it, so, finding it is by trial and error, mostly error.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

The DVD -> Play thing is in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DVD

 

If you're talking autorun/play stuff, look at it in the properties of the drive (right click on it in explorer)

[dbminter]

Thanks! I needed a Registry solution so it could be automated, to prevent me from having to always do it on my own.

 

 

I think I know why what I had that had worked before actually failed. When I test to find whatever X key is for Y, what I do is go in and make some kind of dummy change. A value Windows won't normally have in it, like Zambisi. Then, I search the Registry for all hits to Zambisi. This isolates the keys I need and can juggle around. But, I can guess what I did with this at one point was before and just changed the default in Folder Options and searched for the change. Which is fine IF you pick the right Registry key. The .REG file then works fine. If you have the wrong key, then, running a .REG file may "work" only because I had already changed the value manually didn't change it back.

 

 

Now, in this case, it wasn't HKEY_CLASSES's key I had to change, but, LOCAL's. Changes to the CLASSES didn't work, but, changing the same keys in LOCAL_MACHINE did. Oh, and I did something I thought was better. That stupid &Play shit was apparently hexadecimal. So, I simply created my own Shell, Play With MY Default DVD Player, assigned the proper application and icon, and set it the the default.