zip disk and autoplay?

[Fay Barger]

Anytime I inserted a disk into my zip drive I was getting window with the
message autorun - and then a folder would open showing the disk contents and
the window that displayed autorun would close. I went to properties for
the zip drive - selected AUTOPLAY and changed the action for each file type
to Take no action.

I no longer get the window saying autorun - but the folder still opens to
display the contents of the drive. There are no files in the root directory
of the disk I am inserting - there are a number of directories that contain
data.

What do I need to do so that the folder will not open?


Thanks, Fay

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Locate and then click the following subkey in regedit:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Look at the value of the NoDriveTypeAutoRun entry. A value of 0xb5 turns
off the AutoRun feature

To turn off the AutoRun feature, right-click NoDriveTypeAutoRun, click
Modify, select Hexadecimal, type b5 in the Value data box and then click OK.

 

[Fay Barger]

Mark,

Thanks for you response. Before I make the change I want to verify
something.
I don't want to turn of the autorun for the CD drive -only for the ZIP
drive.
If I make the below change will it turn it off for the both the zip drive
and the CD drive?
Thanks, Fay