

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.

