Did you see if the option to do it is checked in Control Panel>Autoplay (that's for Windows 7 at least).
See if http://www.mydigitallife.info/autoplayautorun-not-working-or-missing-not-open-in-windows-vista/ helps.
Kees
My "aotoplay" doesn't recognise my camera memory card when inserted.

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