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re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media
Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 1:11 am
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Posted by The Dude (1 messages posted)


Disabling SHD doesn't disable autorun for me. But I do keep SHD disabled because nothing I use requires it. Autoplay still works for me, but with SHD disabled my drive icon in My Computer no longer shows the autorun.inf sepecified icon.


On Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 10:50 am, Andrew wrote:
>Another way to disable autoplay in XP (don't know if this works in other versions
>of Windows) is to click Start -> Run -> type "msconfig" -> click the Services tab
>-> and uncheck the selection called "Shell Hardware Detection". This will disable
>autoplay for not only all of your CD-ROM drives, but any other form of removable
>media (ie memory cards from your digital camera).


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Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Andrew: Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 10:50 am)

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-Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Andrew: Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 10:50 am)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (666: Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 11:10 am)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Andrew: Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 11:33 am)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (666: Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 11:43 am)
*re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Andrew: Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 12:33 pm)
*re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Florian: Sun, Apr 27, 2008, 6:17 am)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 2:02 pm)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Andrew: Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 2:29 pm)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 6:03 pm)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Pics73: Fri, Jun 30, 2006, 6:19 am)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (666: Fri, Jun 30, 2006, 9:11 am)
*re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Andrew: Fri, Jun 30, 2006, 9:19 am)
*re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (The Dude: Thu, Nov 2, 2006, 1:11 am)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Jake Foell: Mon, Jan 29, 2007, 6:25 am)
*re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (werner: Mon, Jan 29, 2007, 7:45 am)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (loyd9: Tue, Jan 30, 2007, 4:42 am)
*re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (vtol: Fri, Mar 9, 2007, 6:50 pm)
*re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (sagar: Sun, Apr 8, 2007, 12:16 pm)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Stephen Jones: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 5:13 pm)
*re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 4:21 pm)
-re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (ijal: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 6:57 pm)
*re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (werner: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 3:07 pm)
*How to Disable the Autorun Dialog (Fred Lewis: Wed, Jun 20, 2007, 2:47 pm)
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