Disabling autoplay

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Bob

I've managed to disable normal autoplay, but something
weird happens. Whenever I put in a cd, the search tool
pops up (the one with the dog). I'd like absolutely
nothing to happen when I put a cd in. If anyone can help,
that would be great. This is what I did so far:

Set autorun key in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
to 0.
Set
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun key to end in 0xb5
(it actually shows up as 00b5).
I think I also went into file types and deleted the play
options for (NONE) AudioCD, (NONE) Drive, and (NONE) DVD.
 
Set autorun key in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
to 0.
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I don't know the syntax for that key, but I have heard it is a bitmap
representation of drive letters.
Set
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun key to end in 0xb5
(it actually shows up as 00b5).
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You want that second nybble to be D, not 5. That sets the bit that
suppresses hard drive volumes as autorun devices... for optical
drives, the default (enable) value is 9 and the "suppress" is B.

So BD should suppress \Autorun.inf processing for both HD and CD.

Not sure whether this suppresses the "content awareness" autoplay that
is a feature of XP. TweakUI for XP is your friend :-)


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