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

21 responses to “FIX: Application not found, when click on CD/DVD drive”

  1. J Avatar
    J

    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.

    1. Altheragman Avatar
      Altheragman

       Didn’t work for me!

  2. Bono Avatar
    Bono

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

  3. Jonin17 Avatar
    Jonin17

    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!

  4. ninja Avatar
    ninja

    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..

  5. Ryan Avatar
    Ryan

    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).

  6. Matt Avatar
    Matt

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

  7. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    This worked great

  8. steven ward Avatar
    steven ward

    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.

    1. pmr Avatar
      pmr

      Thanks man ! Great help

    2. Marius Avatar
      Marius

      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!

  9. Maksym Avatar
    Maksym

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

  10. Demonlic Avatar
    Demonlic

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

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