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Disable autoplay for USB device

I have a USB 2 mini hard drive, when I plug it into the port on my computer autoplay opens up I can cancel it, windows then asks me the action that I want to perform.

I want to be able to totally disable the autoplay so that each time I plug the device in the system adds it to my available devices without running autoplay. I know that once the device is available I can open its properties and disable autoplay but as soon as the device is unplugged it obviously loses this information. I want to disable this feature totally for the devices.

This is may be something that I am overlooking.

Thanks in advance

Lianne

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Lianne072600

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Thanks for your comments.

The system I am using at the moment (at work) I do not have the required permissions to try either of these methods. I will try these solutions on my desktop when I get home, hopefully one of them will solve this problem on that.

Is there anything else that can be done to my protected desktop - I only have standard user rights on this system.

Thanks

Lianne

Lianne072600

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Thanks for your help. Both these methods did what I wanted so I have split the points equally, I hope that is acceptable.

Many thanks.

Lianne

Merete

great news Lianne nice quick solution for you. Cheers M