My DVD/CDROM player would not recognise any disk.  I checked that Autoplay
was selecting Media Player and then for the first time I looked at Autoplay
extender and clicked autostart.   Now at this point I had been trying to run
or autorun a commercial CD and I left the cd in the computer when I
rebooted.

The cd still did not run but I then read a MS fix which was to  change the
drive letter.   After doing this and rebooting the DVD/CDROM was recognised
in Explorer and it played the CD both manually and autoplay.

However now the problem is that every time I boot I get a MS popup window
saying:

Open with

Choose the program you want to use to open this file

File:  (there follows here a long string of extended ascii characters which
cannot be read)

There is no disc in the drive and I do not know how to eliminate this
annoying  popup.

If I select notepad to try to read the file all I see is binary.

What can you advise me to now do?

Beemer