Autoplay

[Bill Martin]

How can I drive a stake through the heart of this AutoPlay feature and make
it stop badgering me? I'm running XP Media with all critical updates. I've
followed the Help file instructions and gone through telling the system to
do nothing for every single file type on my DVD/CD drive. So now when I put
in a disk it still scans through the entire disk, thinks about it awhile,
and finally opens up a file listing for the drive.

Is there some way to tell XP to just *do nothing* - to totally ignore the
fact a disk has been inserted? If I want something done I'll open the
relevant program myself and don't need XP guessing about it and chewing up
time while it thinks about it and then opens the wrong program.

I did not have this problem with my prior XP Basic machine, but somehow XP
Media seems to be obsessed to do something to "help" me.

Thanks...

Bill

 

[Uwe Sieber]

How can I drive a stake through the heart of this AutoPlay feature and make
it stop badgering me? I'm running XP Media with all critical updates. I've
followed the Help file instructions and gone through telling the system to
do nothing for every single file type on my DVD/CD drive. So now when I put
in a disk it still scans through the entire disk, thinks about it awhile,
and finally opens up a file listing for the drive.

Is there some way to tell XP to just *do nothing* - to totally ignore the
fact a disk has been inserted? If I want something done I'll open the
relevant program myself and don't need XP guessing about it and chewing up
time while it thinks about it and then opens the wrong program.

AutoRun can be deactivated by some registry settings. These
settings are availlable either for all users or for a certain
user. They deactivate AutoRun by drive letter or by drive type.

I've put this all together in a single tool:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/autorunsettings.zip

Microsoft TweakUI works too but is very incomplete and buggy
here.


Uwe

 

[JD]

How can I drive a stake through the heart of this AutoPlay feature and make
it stop badgering me? I'm running XP Media with all critical updates. I've
followed the Help file instructions and gone through telling the system to
do nothing for every single file type on my DVD/CD drive. So now when I put
in a disk it still scans through the entire disk, thinks about it awhile,
and finally opens up a file listing for the drive.

Is there some way to tell XP to just *do nothing* - to totally ignore the
fact a disk has been inserted? If I want something done I'll open the
relevant program myself and don't need XP guessing about it and chewing up
time while it thinks about it and then opens the wrong program.

I did not have this problem with my prior XP Basic machine, but somehow XP
Media seems to be obsessed to do something to "help" me.

Thanks...

Bill

I use Tweak UI to turn off AutoPlay and do other adjustments to XP:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

It sounds like you've already done this, click on My Computer, then
right mouse click on your DVD/CD drive and select Properties and then
select the AutoPlay tab and turn it off there. There are six types of
"contents" to select Take No Action. I don't know how well this works
since I use Tweak UI to disable AutoPlay. But it sounds like it didn't
work for you. I'm on XP SP2 basic(home edition), not media.

Be interesting to see if Tweak UI works for you.

 

[Bill Martin]

I use Tweak UI to turn off AutoPlay and do other adjustments to XP:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

It sounds like you've already done this, click on My Computer, then right
mouse click on your DVD/CD drive and select Properties and then select the
AutoPlay tab and turn it off there. There are six types of "contents" to
select Take No Action. I don't know how well this works since I use Tweak
UI to disable AutoPlay. But it sounds like it didn't work for you. I'm on
XP SP2 basic(home edition), not media.

Be interesting to see if Tweak UI works for you.

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Ah yes - TweakUI. That did the trick. Thanks to both of you for your
advice.

Bill

 

[JD]

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Ah yes - TweakUI. That did the trick. Thanks to both of you for your
advice.

Bill

You're welcome!

 

[Stan Brown]

AutoRun can be deactivated by some registry settings. These
settings are availlable either for all users or for a certain
user. They deactivate AutoRun by drive letter or by drive type.

I've put this all together in a single tool:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/autorunsettings.zip

Uwe, thanks for this tool! I've just now downloaded it and will try
it out.

Microsoft TweakUI works too but is very incomplete and buggy
here.

Amen!

 

[Jaymon]

Very nice piece of work..
Will try it as well. thanx, for all your efforts..
cheers
j;-j