Cannot disable autorun completely

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Richard Jones

All,

I've ran into something that's driving me nuts. I cannot
completely disable the autorun "feature" (I despise it. <g>) on network
drives mapped to a CD/DVD drive. I have two machines here networked. One is
an x64 machine and I have both XP 32-bit and x64 installed on it. The
problem happens on both machines and both 32 and 64-bit versions.

I had the "NoDriveTypeAutorun" key under
HKLM\........\Policies\Explorer set to 0xFF, but noticed that Autorun would
activate when I mapped a drive letter to CD/DVD drive via the network. I
then set the same key under the HKCU path and that didn't stop it. I then
set the "NoDriveAutorun" to the full 0x3FFFFFFFF value, and under both HKLM
and HKCU, and that still didn't work.

Both 32 and 64 bit versions of XP will still activate autorun on a
mapped CD/DVD drive. And that includes mapping a drive letter to a shared
drive back on the local machine as well as a remote machine.

I don't know if this is some bug or something screwy with my
systems.


-Richard
 
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All,

I've ran into something that's driving me nuts. I cannot
completely disable the autorun "feature" (I despise it. <g>) on
network drives mapped to a CD/DVD drive. I have two machines here
networked. One is an x64 machine and I have both XP 32-bit and x64
installed on it. The problem happens on both machines and both 32 and
64-bit versions.
I had the "NoDriveTypeAutorun" key under
HKLM\........\Policies\Explorer set to 0xFF, but noticed that Autorun
would activate when I mapped a drive letter to CD/DVD drive via the
network. I then set the same key under the HKCU path and that didn't
stop it. I then set the "NoDriveAutorun" to the full 0x3FFFFFFFF
value, and under both HKLM and HKCU, and that still didn't work.

Both 32 and 64 bit versions of XP will still activate autorun
on a mapped CD/DVD drive. And that includes mapping a drive letter to
a shared drive back on the local machine as well as a remote machine.

I don't know if this is some bug or something screwy with my
systems.


-Richard
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Try setting it to "0x000000b1" and that *might* do the trick? I don't know
if it will or not but it may. You can get more info here but I think you
have the rest of it figured out.

Disable CD AutoPlay :
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/disable-autoplay.html

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Galen,

Thanks, but that didn't help. It will still do autorun on a drive
mapped to a CD/DVD drive. It is off on all local drives, as it should be.

Since this is happening on both my machines, and both XP x64 as
well as the regular 32-bit, I wonder if it's a bug/"feature". I'd appreciate
if someone else would try it on their machines and see what happens. It will
happen here no matter if the shared CD/DVD drive is local or remote. For
example, create a share for a local CD/DVD drive, then connect that local
share to a drive letter with explorer. Here, when I do that, if an
autorun.inf file is present, the system will run it, no matter what the
setting of the NoDriveTypeAutorun or NoDrive Autorun value.


-Richard
 
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