re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 6:57 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by ijal (1 messages posted) Your problem sounds like it's a virus infection. The default "action" for usb disks has been hijacked by a command to run the virus, your fortune come to either the virus is gone or some coding error, alas, the command still remains. If you use winxp, copy text below, save it as text file, rename it to .reg (fixdrive.reg) then run it (double click). The last line actually clears away all default "command" for all usb disks you ever plug in. All other "keys" are just to fix the annoyances that keep popping up after the virus infection, together with NoDriveTypeAutoRun entry to kill all drive autorun command... start copy here-> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows] -"load"="Flash.10.exe" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:00000091 "NoFolderOptions"=dword:00000000 "NoFind"=dword:00000000 "NoRun"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] "DisableRegistryTools"=dword:00000000 "DisableCMD"=dword:00000000 "DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] "DisableCMD"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "Shell"="Explorer.exe \" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "Shell"="Explorer.exe" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer] "NoFolderOptions"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "Userinit"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\userinit.exe," [-HKEY_Local_Machine\system\controlset001\enum\root\legacy_securitysever] [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\] Written in response to: re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (Stephen Jones: Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 5:13 pm) Responses to this message: re: Disabling Autoplay for ALL removable media (werner: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 3:07 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum