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re: Article confuses AIN & AutoPlay
Monday, August 2, 2004 at 11:02 am
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Posted by jcw (5088 messages posted)

Won't work in XP-Home as it doesn't have "GPEDIT.MSC".

On Monday, August 2, 2004 at 5:32 am, David Balažic wrote:
>The article confuses "Auto Insert Notification" (AIN) and AutoRun/AutoPlay.
>
>Besides it is missing the simplest and most elegant way to turn off AutoPlay on NT
>based systems ( Win 2000/XP/2003 ), that is the "Group Policy Object Editor". As
>Admin run the command "GPEDIT.MSC" and under "Local Computer Policy" / "Computer
>Configuration" / "Administrative Templates" / "System" , change the "Turn off Autoplay"
>item to "Enabled".
>
>It turn off autorun, but not AIN, so when you insert a CD, the eploer will detect
>it, update its display ( CD label and capacitiy ), but will not run any programs.

Written in response to:: Article confuses AIN & AutoPlay (David Balažic: Monday, August 2, 2004 at 5:32 am)

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Article confuses AIN & AutoPlay (David Balažic: Mon, Aug 2, 2004, 5:32 am)

re: Article confuses AIN & AutoPlay (Ricer46: Mon, Aug 2, 2004, 8:08 am)

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re: Article confuses AIN & AutoPlay (jcw: Mon, Aug 2, 2004, 11:02 am)

re: Article confuses AIN & AutoPlay (Dave McMahon: Tue, Jan 4, 2005, 8:15 pm)

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