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This is correct – figured this out as well! Works with a double-click now. With VLC version 2.0, the regfile needs to be changed to: You could try the VLC forums, or perhaps the SuperUser Q&A site. I have the probem that some of the dvd files that I save in VLC duplicates when I open to play it and when I delete them they are just back the next time I open VLC again.

If you do find out any additional information, please do add that in a reply. Sorry this article didn’t help you solve your problem. I followed this video, put a DVD in my drive, double clicked on DVD and it still opened in WMP. Nope, this way in the video doesn’t work. Watch this video to learn How To Make VLC Default Media Player … Sunday, 26 February 2012 at 12:57 | Reply Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 03:37 | ReplyĪ little more elegant, perhaps, is to change “(Default)” in ‘shell’ to “PlayWithVLC” Works perfect! Double-clicking the DVD drive icon now launches the DVD in VLC.

You sir are a god among geeks! I have been looking for this answer for quite a while. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Ģ0 Responses to “How to Set VLC as the Default DVD Player (Windows 7)” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Friday, 23 September 2011 at 23:24 and is filed under Config, Free Software, Windows.

set AutoPlay for all media devices as preferred.

Select VLC in the combobox for DVD movie.

Select Hardware and Sound, and then AutoPlay.

From the Start button, select Control Panel.

Scroll down to find the Set up associations… button, and click it.

Select the Interface page (if not already selected).

(That’s for a 64-bit Windows 7 system you may need to adjust that for 32-bit systems, or other editions of Windows.)ĭouble click on the file’s icon to import the values into the registry.įor reference, my search revealed the following suggested partial solutions Copy the following into a file called, say, : Windows Registry Editor Version Files (x86)\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe\" -started-from-file dvd://%1" This can alternatively be achieved via a registry import.

Copy the latter value into the former entry.

Note that is set to “C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe” –started-from-file dvd://%1.

Note that is set to “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe” /prefetch:4 /device:DVD “%L”.

Open regedit: enter “regedit” into the search box on the Start button’s pop-up dialog.

However, I was still finding that Windows Media Player would always start when I double-clicked the DVD drive icon.Įventually, I decided to have a bit of a dig around in the system. Having spent some time searching the web for an answer to this question, I found the same partial information repeated many times.