Trouble playing some DVD's with Toshiba DVD player

Some of my instructional DVD's Play music, but it sounds like I'm moving a speaker wire all over the place and breaking the connections and the video does not work, when it auto boots with bToshiba's DVD Software.
When I finally get Toshiba's software stopped, I go to Micrsoft Media player and go to the DVD drive vand start the DVD and everything plays perfect. How can I set this thing up so that Media player is the default autostart when I plug in the DVD's
John H

Go to control panel. Switch to classic view on the left. go to autoplay. choose windows media player on DVD movies.

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