"Dave Smith" <gveloper@msn.com> wrote:

>You may be able to accomplish your goal a little easier. If you right-click
>on the drive and go to properties, under the "AutoPlay" tab you can specify
>the default action for music cds and DVDs to be "take no action" which will
>effectively turn off auto play for those media types.

Thanks. I did know of that method, but
a) Thought it seemed a bit long-winded
b) Recalled seeing posts about it not being 100% reliable
c) Was curious about how to do it 'at a stroke'.

But after some googling it seems that there are a whole bunch of
registry keys that may need changing! This was one useful source:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q155217/

I also had a reply elsewhere that "In this case you shouldn't have
made a new key named 'NoDriveTypeAutoRun', but a new 'DWORD value"
That looks better! Presumably the instructions were *also* wrong
about saying Type should be 'DWORD', as my new line now appears as
NoDriveTypeAutoRun REG_DWORD 0x000000b5 (181)

BTW, I also just ran TweakUI, which allows you to uncheck AutoPlay for
any drive (A - Z). I removed it for T and V (my two CD/DVD drives).
But presumably it doesn't apply these changes until a reboot, because
I found that this key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\CDRom
did not change from 0 to 1 directly afterwards. (I've done so manually
while I was there; maybe TweakUI will toggle it OFF to 0 again <g>)

More to this than immediately meets the eye!

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Terry, West Sussex, UK