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Published: July 1, 2009 by RKONIT

FIX: Application not found, when click on CD/DVD drive

Probably a program was registered to launch automatically when you inserted a DVD, and that program was removed and when you insert any other DVD and try to launch a program, it prompts “Application not found.”

Application Not Found

Its simplest trick that helps to get rid of such problem as well as initialize drive’s (including hard drives and DVD drives) context menu to default.

How To:

1. Run regedit (Registry Editor)

2. Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

3. Remove or delete MountPoint2 key completely and close Registry Editor.

4. Logoff or restart your PC to take effect.

5. Now check and double click on your DVD drives. Happy Windows computing.

Applies To:

  • Windows 7
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP

Last Review: March 7, 2012

Comments

  1. Anand Ajay says

    October 25, 2013 at 11:53 PM

    Thanks Ji , Hats of to u :) :) :)

    Reply
  2. Muhammad Umer says

    August 25, 2013 at 5:43 PM

    Hi
    I tried this solution now I am getting “please insert a disc into drive”
    What should i do now ?
    plz help

    Thanks

    Reply
  3. Arrueira Vermelha says

    March 21, 2013 at 7:57 PM

    Thanks for the straight-to-the point solution. I was having that problem trying to access external drives (including backup drives, USB thumb drives and SD cards!) from Explorer and now it is resolved. Kuddos!

    Reply
  4. hackerzpro4 says

    February 3, 2013 at 4:10 PM

    thankyou

    Reply
  5. Alok Kumar says

    September 6, 2012 at 10:53 PM

    Thank You very Much.. Grate job.!!

    Reply
  6. Knosys Networks says

    May 7, 2012 at 7:47 PM

    Fix didn’t work here, I guess the drive needs replaced.

    Reply
  7. dave says

    November 6, 2011 at 10:13 PM

    I can’t see Mountpoint2 help me plz?

    Reply
  8. STEVE says

    May 26, 2011 at 12:13 AM

    The best answer that worked for me was to go into the Windows 7 control panel, select programs and features.
    Click on the turn on/off features on the left panel
    Go to Media Features and de-select all.
    After windows runs its thing it will reboot.
    Once you’re back select those options again with a check mark and reboot.
    You should be able to put a DVD into drive and start immediatly.
    If you have more than one media program capable of playing dvds then you will be prompted to select the one you want.

    Reply
  9. J says

    January 22, 2011 at 4:27 AM

    In device manager, uninstall the drive and reboot. Tried everything else first and either that or the combination of everything else and then that worked.

    Reply
    • Altheragman says

      February 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM

       Didn’t work for me!

  10. Bono says

    December 4, 2010 at 6:53 PM

    @Ryan
    Thank You for solution. The first solution didn’t work for me (that with deleting registry key) but yet it works !!!

    Reply
  11. Jonin17 says

    November 29, 2010 at 12:50 AM

    Hey thanks man, this fix actually worked for me. One of the few times I’ve found a solution online that did so. You just saved me some money that I would have otherwise, probably had to spend on getting a new drive. Cheers!

    Reply
  12. ninja says

    November 9, 2010 at 2:57 PM

    i do have the same problem almost. i have window 7 and on clicking cd drive its showing the error application not found.i have not deletd the mount point 2 as i fear doing anything in registry keys.. and i have tried almost everything plzzz help me and mail d exact solution..

    Reply
  13. Ryan says

    November 6, 2010 at 6:33 AM

    This fix did not work for me. Nor did any of the others that I found online. Since the trouble seemed only to be an issue with accessing Windows Media Player, I decided to disable it then re-enable it. Success!

    Start>Control Panel>Programs and Features>Turn Windows features on or off>Media Features>clear the check box for Windows Media Player. After Windows configures the changes and you restart your machine, go back and select the check box again (also select Windows Media Center, if you use it, as it was disabled in the process).

    Reply
  14. Matt says

    June 30, 2010 at 10:34 PM

    I did that but not it says insert a disc even if the disc is in there.

    Reply
  15. Chris says

    June 11, 2010 at 2:57 PM

    This worked great

    Reply
  16. steven ward says

    March 17, 2010 at 6:36 AM

    dont delete the whole key.

    find the subkey that refers to the invalid file in autorun for the specified drive, in my case d:/go.exe.

    delete that subkey.

    Reply
    • pmr says

      August 22, 2010 at 1:09 PM

      Thanks man ! Great help

    • Marius says

      March 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM

      Thank`s a lot! I did exact in your advice. In my case was the problem with removable drives G and H. I deleted the subkeys with extensions of these drives “Autorun” and “Shell” . Now I open the drives without this fu… error window!

  17. Maksym says

    March 9, 2010 at 11:32 PM

    lol, i do that, and without restar its worked thankyou =)

    Reply
  18. Demonlic says

    January 3, 2010 at 12:03 AM

    thx anyway…but after using the method 1 more problem came out “insert a disk” even the dvd have the disk inside then rom

    Reply

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