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re: disabe autoplay of external drives using Tweak UI Friday, December 13, 2002 at 10:15 pm Posted by GPS (1 messages posted) Assuming that you're running Windows XP, install Tweak UI for Windows XP (use the link below to download it). Then run it and (in the Tweak UI window) click on My Computer / AutoPlay / Drives and uncheck the drives that you don't want to be autoplayed (for me I unchecked all available drives (except for my CD drives)). You might need to log off or restart for the new settings to take effect. P.S. At last I found how to do this. (this used to really annoy me, and in fact I read your message looking for any solutions... now that I found a solution, I want to do something good and help someone with it :-) http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe On Friday, November 8, 2002 at 9:19 am, david wrote: >I want to turn off autoplay for USB drives, but since they can have a different drive >letter, depending on how my machine is set up, how can i turn off autoplay for ANY >drive? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how about autoplay for usb drives? Saturday, March 13, 2004 at 12:22 pm Posted by Matt Clapp (3 messages posted) You can also make a removable drive's letter always be the same. This is useful for a lot of reasons. If you use the Disk Management Console as described: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-024 If you change the letter of a drive that's removable, when you disconnect and reconnect that drive it will again have that letter you just changed it to. Then, you can right click on that drive letter, select Properties..., and then the Autoplay tab--and go through every possible media type for autoplay and select 'No Action' and Apply each time. If every media type has a No Action, it won't even try to search your files. On Friday, November 8, 2002 at 9:19 am, david wrote: >I want to turn off autoplay for USB drives, but since they can have a different drive >letter, depending on how my machine is set up, how can i turn off autoplay for ANY >drive? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how about autoplay for usb drives? Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 3:58 am Posted by Mike (1 messages posted) I had mine trained for a while to take no action when I stuck my thumb drive in. Then, for no apparent reason, it started popping up the folder window. I've selected, de-selected and re-selected take no action, but it listens about as well as my wife does. (It's always the same drive designation.) Any ideas on what's causing this and how I can kill it? -Mike [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how about autoplay for usb drives? Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 11:52 pm Posted by Matt Clapp (3 messages posted) You can set autoplay settings pretty easily using TweakUI, a "Power toy". You can tell it never to activate autoplay for certain drive letters, or for all drives. In TweakUI, go to the "My Computer" section, "AutoPlay" subsection. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Matt On Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 3:58 am, Mike wrote: >I had mine trained for a while to take no action when I stuck my thumb drive in. >Then, for no apparent reason, it started popping up the folder window. > >I've selected, de-selected and re-selected take no action, but it listens about as >well as my wife does. > >(It's always the same drive designation.) > >Any ideas on what's causing this and how I can kill it? > >-Mike > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how about autoplay for usb drives? Monday, January 12, 2009 at 8:37 am Posted by pceasy (1 messages posted) You can also do it through the XP disk management... 1) From the START menu, right-click My Computer and choose "Manage". 2) Select Disk Management. 3) Select the USB drive from the displayed list and then right-click. 4) Select Properties. 5) Go to the AutoPlay tab and under 'Always Perform This Action', select "No Action" or select "Prompt Me Each Time". 6) Select OK. On Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 11:52 pm, Matt Clapp wrote: >You can set autoplay settings pretty easily using TweakUI, a "Power toy". You can >tell it never to activate autoplay for certain drive letters, or for all drives. > >In TweakUI, go to the "My Computer" section, "AutoPlay" subsection. > >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx > >Matt > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how about autoplay for usb drives? Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 3:45 pm Posted by Keith S. Angus (4 messages posted) Setting "No Action" for all file types worked for me, but is not attached to the plug in drive I am using. Is it possible to write an Autorun.inf which says "do nothing", and load that onto whichever portable drive, memory stick, etc that needs it? Then it's part of the drive, not the machine settings. Keith On Monday, January 12, 2009 at 8:37 am, pceasy wrote: >You can also do it through the XP disk management... >1) From the START menu, right-click My Computer and choose "Manage". >2) Select Disk Management. >3) Select the USB drive from the displayed list and then right-click. >4) Select Properties. >5) Go to the AutoPlay tab and under 'Always Perform This Action', select "No Action" >or select "Prompt Me Each Time". >6) Select OK. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how about autoplay for usb drives? Monday, September 21, 2009 at 12:00 am Posted by Mohan Arun L (1 messages posted) Even after selecting "No action" for all possible file types whenever I insert usb drive it brings up the "autoplay" dialog box (the one that quickly shows files and folders being loaded) > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum