Disable autoplay, enable manual autoplay

[Armin Zingler]

Hi,

I know how to disable autoplay for CD-drives (group policies), but then the
item "autoplay" in the context menu for the CD is also missing. Sometimes I
want to start autoplay manually afterwards, but as the option is missing, I
have to manually open autorun.inf in editor to find out the autorun
application, then start it manually. How can I get the menu item back in the
context menu? In Win98 I could disable autoplay but still had the item in
the context menu.

TIA


Armin

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:20:57 +0100, "Armin Zingler"

I know how to disable autoplay for CD-drives (group policies), but then the
item "autoplay" in the context menu for the CD is also missing. Sometimes I
want to start autoplay manually afterwards, but as the option is missing, I
have to manually open autorun.inf in editor to find out the autorun
application, then start it manually. How can I get the menu item back in the
context menu? In Win98 I could disable autoplay but still had the item in
the context menu.

If you find this answer, I want it too please! I've always thort
maintaining the Autoplay action in NON-default form would be a good
compromise between risk management and convenience.

There are two broad things that apply here:

1) \Autorun.inf processing

This is prolly what you are suppressing, either via a NoAutoRun or a
NoDriveTypeAutoRun, or both. You may be doing this via TweakUI or
Policies, but chances are, that's what the strings are attached to!

There's no fine-grain control here - an \Autorun.inf is either
processed, or it isn't. If it's processed, and it puts itself as the
default action for the drive letter, then that's what happens -
effectively, it adds new actions for the drive letter "on the fly".

2) Auto-Insert Notification

This is generally a system-wide setting, and determines whether the
system polls the drive to see if the disk in the drive has been
changed. Suppressing this will appear to give you what you want, in
that the \Autorun.inf won't be processed when the disk is inserted
(because the OS is unaware the disk has changed).

However, if you click that drive letter, the \Autorun.inf is processed
instead of the expected folder view navigation.

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