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re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Monday, August 2, 2004 at 5:39 am
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Posted by David Balažic (8 messages posted)

The solution is to turn off AutoPlay with gpedit.msc ( as I described in my other 
message ). That will turn of autorun programs/executables, but leave auto playing 
of audio CDs ( unless of course you turned that off in the CD properties dialog )

On Monday, September 29, 2003 at 9:34 pm, Algae wrote:

>On Monday, September 29, 2003 at 1:47 pm, jcw wrote:

>>I was thinking that perhaps "mixed" might include those executables.  If not, looks 

>>like you will have to turn auto-run off altogether, and manually start your musical 

>>CDs. 

>>

>>

>

>Yes, that's the conclusion I'm coming to. All options except one can be catered 
for. 

>Annoying really.

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Monday, September 29, 2003 at 9:34 pm)

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re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 10:32 am)

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Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Sun, Sep 28, 2003, 9:02 pm)

re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (jcw: Sun, Sep 28, 2003, 9:34 pm)

re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Sun, Sep 28, 2003, 11:03 pm)

re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (jcw: Mon, Sep 29, 2003, 1:47 pm)

re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Mon, Sep 29, 2003, 9:34 pm)

re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (David Balažic: Mon, Aug 2, 2004, 5:39 am)

re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (Algae: Wed, Aug 4, 2004, 10:32 am)

re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun' (David Balažic: Wed, Aug 4, 2004, 1:52 pm)

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