How do I *really* disable auto-play in Windows XP?

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Terry

Use TweakUI as decribed in the article. You'll need to for each drive -- and possibly for each user, I'm not sure.

I would love to get rid of this annoyance but the microsoft web site says 'PowerToys will only work with US-English regional settings'. Any suggestions for those that don't want to use US-English regional settings (the rest of the world ;-> ) or have I misunderstood what it means?

Thanks
Chris

In your situation, I'd be really tempted to try it anyway. I can't think of any huge reason it would be US only, other than they haven't bothered to translate the text with it.

To Disable autoplay, completely, on all drives, in Windows XP Pro

1) Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC

2) Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System.

3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off and modify it as you desire.

Any suggestion to get it done on XP Home.

I'll ask the same question above. Any suggestion to get it done on XP Home.
I've got a notebook and i dont wanna install windows xp pro just to disable auto play.....
what do you say to help me...

Use TweakUI

TweakUI certainly can do but would be great to know about any Admin key options or registry keys.

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then press ENTER.
2. Locate and click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
3. To disable automatically running CD-ROMs, change the Autorun value to 0 (zero). To enable automatically running CD-ROMs, change the Autorun value to 1.
4. Restart your computer.
NOTE: This method disables automatically running CD-ROMs. If you want to disable automatically running CD-ROMs depending on the CD-ROM that you insert in the CD-ROM drive, you can press and hold down one of the SHIFT key while you insert the CD-ROM.

(From the microsoft site)

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