Hello,

I use an external drive for backup purposes. When I switch the drive on,
windows immediately begins indexing the drive - which I can manually
cancel - and also opens a box asking me if I want to copy images to my
computer. I usually press the "take no action" choice, but it comes on
every time.

Is there any way to initialize a setting that would stop windows from doing
both these jobs when I switch on the drive?

Thanks for any advice...

Rob

With the external drive plugged in open Explorer, right-click the drive,
select properties, and uncheck the Allow indexing service... option

"Robert DeNarrow" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I use an external drive for backup purposes. When I switch the drive on,
> windows immediately begins indexing the drive - which I can manually
> cancel - and also opens a box asking me if I want to copy images to my
> computer. I usually press the "take no action" choice, but it comes on
> every time.
>
> Is there any way to initialize a setting that would stop windows from
> doing both these jobs when I switch on the drive?
>
> Thanks for any advice...
>
> Rob
>