I have a question about Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun:

As far as I can see tweakui does not really fix this annoyance for me. All I want to turn off is autorun for executables (e.g. game discs like Civ III or Europa Universalis) because I am likely to be invoking them from an icon (in some cases giving me tailored entry to the game). I'm quite happy to let autorun start up a music CD as this is almost always why I will be loading it. But tweakui is kind of all or nothing and the menu options in XP allow tuning for every other kind of CD than the simple executable. So I'm back to using the shift key. But how annoying is that, to have to time how long to hold it down instead of getting on with your life?

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Tried applying WinXP-Solution 1 in Article 03-018 to have auto-run work for musical CDs but to take no action for the others?


On Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 9:02 pm, Algae wrote:
>I have a question about Turn
>Off the CD-ROM Autorun:

>
>
>As far as I can see tweakui does not really fix this annoyance for me. All I want
>to turn off is autorun for executables (e.g. game discs like Civ III or Europa Universalis)
>because I am likely to be invoking them from an icon (in some cases giving me tailored
>entry to the game). I'm quite happy to let autorun start up a music CD as this is
>almost always why I will be loading it. But tweakui is kind of all or nothing and
>the menu options in XP allow tuning for every other kind of CD than the simple executable.
>So I'm back to using the shift key. But how annoying is that, to have to time how
>long to hold it down instead of getting on with your life?

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On Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 9:34 pm, jcw wrote:
>Tried applying WinXP-Solution 1 in Article 03-018 to have auto-run work for musical
>CDs but to take no action for the others?
>
> That's my point! there is no category for autorun executables. I can turn off pictures and videos and mixed (whatever that means), etc.; but not everyday game CDs that are mostly only loaded to authenticate ownership and have autorun on them. some of these dive straight into install mode in certain circumstances.

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I was thinking that perhaps "mixed" might include those executables. If not, looks like you will have to turn auto-run off altogether, and manually start your musical CDs.


On Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 11:03 pm, Algae wrote:
>On Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 9:34 pm, jcw wrote:
>Tried applying WinXP-Solution 1 in Article 03-018 to have auto-run work for musical
>CDs but to take no action for the others?
>
>
>
>That's my point! there is no category for autorun executables. I can turn off pictures
>and videos and mixed (whatever that means), etc.; but not everyday game CDs that
>are mostly only loaded to authenticate ownership and have autorun on them. some of
>these dive straight into install mode in certain circumstances.

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On Monday, September 29, 2003 at 1:47 pm, jcw wrote:
>I was thinking that perhaps "mixed" might include those executables. If not, looks
>like you will have to turn auto-run off altogether, and manually start your musical
>CDs.
>
> Yes, that's the conclusion I'm coming to. All options except one can be catered for. Annoying really.

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The solution is to turn off AutoPlay with gpedit.msc ( as I described in my other 
message ). That will turn of autorun programs/executables, but leave auto playing 
of audio CDs ( unless of course you turned that off in the CD properties dialog )






On Monday, September 29, 2003 at 9:34 pm, Algae wrote:

>On Monday, September 29, 2003 at 1:47 pm, jcw wrote:

>>I was thinking that perhaps "mixed" might include those executables.  If not, looks 


>>like you will have to turn auto-run off altogether, and manually start your musical 


>>CDs. 

>>

>>

>

>Yes, that's the conclusion I'm coming to. All options except one can be catered 
for. 

>Annoying really.
 

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Thanks David, but I have Home edition and that option is not available. Algae


On Monday, August 2, 2004 at 5:39 am, David Bala?ic wrote:
>The solution is to turn off AutoPlay with gpedit.msc ( as I described in my other
>message ). That will turn of autorun programs/executables, but leave auto playing
>of audio CDs ( unless of course you turned that off in the CD properties dialog )
>
>

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You can do it by editing the registry :
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
There is a Value "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" , change it to 0xFF and it will turn off Autplay/run 
on all drives. This is the same thing that gpedit.msc does.

See the MS documentation of this registry entry at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/regentry/91525.asp







On Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 10:32 am, Algae wrote:

>Thanks David, but I have Home edition and that option is not available.

>

>Algae

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