Can Autoplay be disabled?

[Bill & Debbie]

I would like to stop Autoplay from doing a disk scan whenever I connect an
external drive via USB. Is there any way to stop it?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Bill

 

[R. McCarty]

XP Powertoy, Tweak-UI has the provision to disable AutoPlay on
selected drives.
My Computer (Category)
AutoPlay (sub)
Drives (sub)
Untic/Uncheck the Drive letters you wish to disable AutoPlay features

Download link for Tweak-UI:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

 

[Bob I]

Pick which method you want from the list below
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=disable+autoplay

 

[Newbie Coder]

Bill & Debbie,

Tweak UI alters the registry & can mess up your computer if used wrongly.

The change you want can be EASILY & SAFELY done via an Explorer policy &
can be disabled for the current user or all users on the machine

If you tell me the drive letter than I can give you the setting because if I
paste a 100% perfect reply here then some whingers will say that I have
complicated it too much. Wheras, it's actually very simple

Tweak will install as a CPL (Control Panel) extension & run constantly on
system startup. Earlier versions of Windows made it tricky to get rid of.
So, why have something else wasting memory when all it is is one registry
key value? Its your option of course but just more junk cluttering up the
system

 

[Malke]

Bill & Debbie,

Tweak UI alters the registry & can mess up your computer if used wrongly.

The change you want can be EASILY & SAFELY done via an Explorer policy &
can be disabled for the current user or all users on the machine

If you tell me the drive letter than I can give you the setting because if I
paste a 100% perfect reply here then some whingers will say that I have
complicated it too much. Wheras, it's actually very simple

Tweak will install as a CPL (Control Panel) extension & run constantly on
system startup. Earlier versions of Windows made it tricky to get rid of.
So, why have something else wasting memory when all it is is one registry
key value? Its your option of course but just more junk cluttering up the
system

This is nonsense. The whole point of TweakUI is to make changes in the
Registry safely. All settings in the Windows operating system are found
in the Registry. The OP should follow Bob I's advice instead.


Malke

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Do you write fiction for a living?

Raymond Chen, the guy that developed TweakUI, would be very sorry to hear
all of this.

Raymond Chen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chen

The history of the Windows PowerToys
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/02/02/365432.aspx

Tweak UI alters the registry & can mess up your computer if used wrongly.

The whole point of using TweakUI is so users can make changes without
accessing the registry directly.

<quote>
Tweak UI
This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not
exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including
mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more.

The change you want can be EASILY & SAFELY done via an Explorer policy &
can be disabled for the current user or all users on the machine

WTF is Explorer policy? Do you mean Group Policy (gpedit.msc)?

Using Group Policy is no different then using TweakUI, they both make
registry changes.

Group Policy is also *not* available with XP Home.

Tweak will install as a CPL (Control Panel) extension & run constantly on
system startup. Earlier versions of Windows made it tricky to get rid of.
So, why have something else wasting memory when all it is is one registry
key value? Its your option of course but just more junk cluttering up the
system

Horse hockey!

There is no .cpl file involved. TweakUI.cpl is from a Windows 95 or 98
version of TweakUI. The XP version has no .cpl file.

TweakUI.exe is installed in C:\WINDOWS\system32 and does not run unless it
is opened on purpose.

A shortcut to C:\WINDOWS\system32\TweakUI.exe in C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Powertoys for Windows XP is also
added so the user can open TweakUI.

You can also add TweakUI to the Control Panel with
xp_AddTweakUItoControlPanel.vbs from
here...
1. Add XP TweakUI Icon to the Control Panel
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

It adds...
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Version 2.10 requires Windows XP Service Pack 1 or above or Windows
Server 2003.

If you have Windows XP without any Service Packs, download Version 2.00.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/
EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Tweak UI for Windows XP Guide
http://www.winxpsolution.com/Tweakuixppro.aspx

TweakUI for Windows XP - Tips
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/twktips.htm

TweakUI PowerTips
http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/archive/2003/08/01/22303.aspx

All of those tips at the link above are part of TweakUI.

TweakUI
[+] About
Tips

You can cycle through the tips with the Next Tip and Previous Tip buttons.
But, if you click the Save Tips button, you get Tweak UI Tips.txt which you
can save wherever, with all of the tips in a Notepad file.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Bill & Debbie,

Tweak UI alters the registry & can mess up your computer if used
wrongly.

Although TweakUI (usually) makes registry changes, it is far and away the
easiest and safest way to make those registry changes. Nothing is risk-free,
but the risk of TweakUI causing a problem (especially a problem that can't
easily be reversed) is very low. A direct registry edit, on th eother hand,
is very risky.

I highly recommend using TweakUI for any configuration change it's suited
for. It can't do everything, but for those things it can do, it's almost
always the easiest and best way to do them

Tweak will install as a CPL (Control Panel) extension

Not true. Back in the days of Windows 98, TweakUI was a control panel
applet. Today, it's a stand-alone exe file.

& run
constantly on system startup.

Not true.

Earlier versions of Windows made it
tricky to get rid of. So, why have something else wasting memory when
all it is is one registry key value?

Two reasons:

1. TweakUI is not resident and wastes no memory at all.

2. Making a direct registry change is far more difficult and far more risky
than using TweakUI. A mistake in editing the registry can easily render your
system unbootable. Even for someone experienced in registry editing, it's
foolhardy to so something by hand if TweakUI can do the same thing.