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Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:06:57 -0400
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Re: Autoplay with hard drive
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You can turn off Autoplay for a given drive with Tweakui:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Look under My Computer/Autoplay/ Drives.
There is a registry hack here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-018

George wrote:

>Hi
>I installed a 300GB hard drive to my  USB 2.0 port. The jumper was set to slave. It is a Western Digital drive and was installed using Data Lifeguard Tools 11.
>The drive does function properly. I am using it to store pictures.
>However, my problem is that "autoplay" comes on constantly. It's the same thing you get as when you put a CD disk into your CD drive.
>Sometimes it comes on every five minutes. Is there any way to shut this off.
>
>

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