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?

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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?

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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? 

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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

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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

>
 

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