Disabling Autoplay on Win XP SP2

[Guest]

How do disable autoplay once and for all? I have tried telling XP not to take any actions when
I insert a CD or flash card or turn on a USB drive, but XP always scans the drive, as if it is
looking for some file/content-type that it can ask about.

I don't want XP to do ANYTHING with ANY type of media. Ever. How do I do this?

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Mart=EDn?=]

Download and install TweakUI from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx. Open My Computer section (from TweakUI program) and select AutoPlay. There you'll be able to disable AutoPlay without even modifying the Windows registry.

 

[Peter Foldes]

You will find it below

Disable CD AutoPlay for Home or Pro (Line 3)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

also the reg key for it is

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\Services\Cdrom AutoRun = 1

 

[frodo]

Using TweakUI, under "My Computer | Autoplay", uncheck the specific
"Drives" letters, AND both "Types".

I also DISABLE the "Shell Hardware Detection" Service.

 

[Plato]

How do disable autoplay once and for all? I have tried telling XP not to take any

Read the replies, then keep detailed notes in a physical file in your
physical file cabinet noting how you disabled it. Because..... you
might HAVE to put it back later as some driver install CDs simply wont
run anyway but if autoplay works. Yes it's true, some driver CDs have NO
way of manually running/lanuching the cd.

Luckily, there are some free utils that will force autoplay to work in
you get in a bind later and really need it to work.