Although it's irritating, I don't particularly want or need to stop the AutoPlay feature that runs EVERY TIME I connect my USB drive / USB stick to a running Windows machine. I gather I could use TweakUI to disable AutoPlay for some/ all drivenames, but I'd rather do this, if at all, by direct editing of the registry. Can anybody tell me how to do this?
Included on my USB drive is Cygwin, which requires *.lnk files to be set +R to work properly as links. Recently all the +R attributes were lost. They were easily recovered, but we are completely incredulous and without ideas as to how/ why this blanket "attrib -r /s" can have occurred. Have you ever experienced a similar drive-wide loss of, or change to, file attributes on a mobile device?
Thank you,
Fergus
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You can just delete "Autorun.ini" in the main directory.
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To remove Autoplay from ALL drive letters, create a file named "NoDriveAutoRun.reg"
Copy\Paste the following into the file:
Double click on the file to run it and select "Yes" to add the info to the registry. You probably need local admin rights to change values in the HKLM hive.
Reference: http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/156/
Even more tweaking you can do: http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/1142/
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