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Windows 98 and Audio

Select Your Default CD Player Drive

SUMMARY: Configure which drive is the default device for playing CDs in Windows 98.

Many computers nowadays come with more than one CD-audio capable player. PCs sometimes come with a CD and CD-RW player, others with a DVD and CD-RW drive. Because of this, you may want to manually select which CD player is set to play your audio CDs by default when you open the software "CD Player."

To select the default CD-ROM drive to use when playing audio CDs, click the "Start" button, choosing "Control Panel". Then, on the "Control Panel" window that follows, choose "Multimedia". On the "Multimedia Properties" multi-tabbed dialog box that appears, select the "CD Music" tab. Now, next to "Default CD-ROM drive for playing CD music:", choose your desired drive from the pulldown. Press "OK" to close the dialog box.

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