Comments on: Disable AutoPlay in Windows Vista

By: Speedcop

Speedcop — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:25:47 +0000

KAPTAN

excellent advice, after three days of struggling through different forums and downloading numerous useless registry fix programs, your advice did it for me. I owe you a beer.

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:56:21 +0000

I want to do the same thing as Davie. I’m using Vista Home Premium.
I want to enable my autoplay, but the “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer” is not there!
I can get to “Policies” in Registry Editor, but it only has “Attachments” “NonEnum” and “System”. And my “Software” is in all Caps.
Is that bad? I don’t know what to do!
Autoplay is enabled in control panel.
Autoplay will appear for my Samsung mp3 player (YP-U3) but not my USB (4gb) or my External Hard drive USB.
Any suggestions????
many thanks, Em.

By: David Pastern

David Pastern — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:49:21 +0000

Didn’t fix my problem – vista 64 ultimate. I suspect that after installing Core Paintshop Pro X2, it’s screwed my autoplay (problems happened at about the same time). Autoplay is turned on in the control panel, Vista recognises the CD/DVD etc. The service is started (I restarted it to force things) and registry keys look fine to me. So does group policy.

Kaptan – “Modifying HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer to 91 (hex) worked for me.”

I have several sub options in this folder, am I assigning the code change to one of them, or to the parent folder?

Dave

By: MrSato

MrSato — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:49:34 +0000

I have a slightly different issue/request. I have disabled all autorun on my computer, using the autorun control panel. My philosophy is similar to firewall best practices. Block everything, and then enable what you actually need only. Well, I need for either a particular USB flashdrive to autorun, or all usb flashdrives to autorun. I have a usb logon key that apparently requires it. It worked fine before I disabled autorun. Trouble is, I see no way to only enable for USB flashdrives. In the control panel you can enable or disable based on content, rather than source. This does make sense, but it shouldn’t leave out the possibility to specify that on a per device level. You can enable for “Software and Games”… this would work but is the most dangerous of all!

By: jd2066

jd2066 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:58:43 +0000

@Spacegold: It sounds like you have the classic control panel view turned on. For the classic view just double click the Autoplay icon to get to the options this article shows.

By: DocuMike

DocuMike — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:21:37 +0000

Disabling AutoPlay in Vista Home Premium fixed a long – running problem with explorer.exe that caused any active window to pulse (or flicker)every second or so. It was very annoying.

By: Spacegold

Spacegold — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:11:59 +0000

In Vista Home Premium I have, there is no “Hardware and Sound” icon or any other icon that produces the screenshots you show.

By: Kaptan

Kaptan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:54:29 +0000

@Davie

To enable AutoRun/AutoPlay

Modifying HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer to 91 (hex) worked for me.

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:47:10 +0000

Hi, I’ve got Vista Home Basic and I’ve downloaded and executed your registry hack and ran both of the files but my USB devices still autoplay when plugged in. Can you tell me what could be the problem? cheers, Christy

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:20:04 +0000

Hi,
How do I add software programs in Autoplay? I wanted to add more options to Autoplay but only see windows applications. Isn’t there a way to increase the programs that autoplay shows in each group?