[Artellos]

You can easily check.

Right click your flash drive and hit properties.
Then click the second tab (should be autorun).
See what the setting is set to.
You can have it asking you each time or remembering.

Hope that helps.
Regards,
Olrik

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Did you reboot between? I would expect XP to ask you what you want to do the next time teh flash drive is inserted, that is what happened when I did this.

[Ztruker]

Did you reboot between? I would expect XP to ask you what you want to do the next time teh flash drive is inserted, that is what happened when I did this.

[happyrock]

I just tried this on one of my flash drives...no change...autoplay is like its always been ...even tried rebooting after using properties set to take no action...still autoplay runs as soon as I plug the flash drive in..

[Ztruker]

Interesting. I just tried it again and with the left shift key help down when I inset the flash drive, nothing happens except for the popup about "This device will work faster ....", no autoplay, no prompt.

Do you perhaps have some registry tweak applied that disables this?

[happyrock]

if I do ...I don't know what it would be...

[TheQuickBrownFox]

Did you reboot between? I would expect XP to ask you what you want to do the next time teh flash drive is inserted, that is what happened when I did this.

I don't remember.

Shifting always disables auto run for me happyrck. Maybe you Shifted too late? Or released it too early? I dunnow...

In addition, I just discovered a couple of days ago by accident that pressing shift while "Entering" a folder "Exlores" it in a new window rather than Opening it. If multiple folders are highlighted and you "Shift + Enter" them, each folder Explores in individual new windows.

Do keyboard shortcuts like this differ in different Windows OS's?

Edited by ditrackster, 03 May 2008 - 12:32 AM.

[happyrock]

must have been a timing thing (pressing the shift key )because it just worked for me ...but

As a side benefit, that seems to wipe out XP's knowledge of what to do with the drive the next time it's connected normally. When I did this, it asked me what action I wanted taken.

this does not happen for me ...still autoplays even after a reboot(unless I press the shift key) ...I tried several times using several different settings using properties set to take no action....its no biggie though