OT - help please

CDM wrote on 2/20/2003, 9:37 AM

Has anyone had any success in REALLY disabling autoplay in WinXP Pro? This is driving me nuts. I have selected DO NOTHING in the pop-up dialong that appears when you insert a CD or attach a firewire device about a thousand times and it still asks me what I want to do with the device. I have gone to the properties of each drive and manually selected DO NOTHING for each of the types of CDs in the list there and still, everytime I insert a CD, it tries to figure out what to do with it. I want Windows to do NOTHING.

Is there a way?

thanks in advance.

Comments

bgc wrote on 2/20/2003, 12:16 PM

found this doing a google:

To Disable CD autoplay, completely, in Windows XP Pro

1) Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC

2) Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System.

3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off and modify it as you desire.

bgc wrote on 2/20/2003, 12:17 PM

And for XP home:

To Disable CD autoplay, completely, in Windows XP Home

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Then go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer

Create a new value called: NoDriveTypeAutoRun
Type is: DWORD
Value is: 0x000000b5 (181)

You may need to log off/log on or reboot for the change to take effect. Additionally, you may need Administrator privileges to edit the Registry.

This page last updated 04/26/2002 20:06
All material © 2002 - Doug Knox

CDM wrote on 2/20/2003, 12:40 PM

that's great - thank you!

Rednroll wrote on 2/20/2003, 7:40 PM

Thanks!!! I've been having this same problem too.