Re: Can Autoplay be disabled?

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XP Powertoy, Tweak-UI has the provision to disable AutoPlay on
selected drives.
My Computer (Category)
AutoPlay (sub)
Drives (sub)
Untic/Uncheck the Drive letters you wish to disable AutoPlay features

Download link for Tweak-UI:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

"Bill & Debbie" <billdeb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OqLm5dvaHHA.4616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I would like to stop Autoplay from doing a disk scan whenever I connect an
external drive via USB. Is there any way to stop it?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Bill



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