Switeck Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Sorry, this is just a rant...I looked for how to do what the topic says...and well even GOOGLE drew the short straw on that one. Can someone tell me a simple way to PERMANENTLY disable that "feature"?Nailing the shift key down isn't safe enough anymore....on a similar note, disabling Adobe's new "install Flash v9.0 NOW!" pop-up ad has proven very troublesome too.Anyone have any clues on how to kill that as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invy Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 You must not now how to use Google very well then. I just searched for 'how to disable autorun' and got plenty of results:http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Get the TweakUI PowerToy for Windows XP - it has a bucketload of things you can tweak, and I explicitly remember a setting to kill autorun for drive types, drive letters, or just kill autorun altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 I was at first looking for "disable CD auto boot"...but that kept referring to BIOS booting from CD, not Windows XP auto-running a CD. That's mostly what made me mad.The other reason I got mad was when I tried the old Win 9x/ME way of disabling CD autorun on Win XP...that option was removed!Microsoft does not want you disabling this!Btw, the "Windows XP - Solution 1" doesn't prevent game CDs from autorunning when inserted.Also, I'm not looking to install TweakUI on my computers -- I just want a reg file to disable CD autorun.I tried the Win 2k/XP reg hack for Win XP...and it doesn't seem to work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdromset AutoRun to 0, reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Firon I did, it didn't work!After reboot, I put a game CD in, and it autoran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syseval Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom]"Autorun"=dword:00000000Try to put this in a .reg file, execute it and reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 What Syseval said to do is basically what the TweakUI GUI handles for you I just dont like autorun at all so I turned it all off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Poppins Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Another way would be to disable the "Shell hardware detection" service, which would disable autoplay for all removable media. I haven't tried this myself, but it should work. I think. Maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 The registry trick's always worked for me. Maybe Shell Hardware Detection does it too. I wouldn't know, since I lack the service altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom]"Autorun"=dword:00000000Try to put this in a .reg file, execute it and reboot.This worked great, so much so I think it's worth repeating!I don't know why Firon's suggestion didn't work. ...now does anyone know how to kill the pop-up ad for "install Adobe Flash v9.0 NOW!"?I can't seem to locate the webserver ip/URL it's coming from...or I'd kill that dead using my HOSTS file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Use TCPView next time it comes up - you should see a connection from your web browser going to whichever server it is. Then you can kill it dead using your HOSTS file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 All he did was put my instructions into a .reg file... which means you probably just did it wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 I tried to do it like this:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom]"AutoRun"="0"...which I downloaded as a premade .reg file from a website.silverfire, I tried using TCPView and my router's logs and it seems the pop-up is originating as PART of the news site I'm on rather than from a remote/separate server that I can block. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syseval Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 Setting the string "0" don't work.The "dword" is not here for nothing...For your popup, you can try a HTTP proxy who can block a part of a site, or using an adblock plugin with your browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 Actually, I checked the registry value when it didn't work the first time and it was a dword.About the same time as Firon's post, I got a registry entry from a website which contained what I thought Firon meant. Close, but not close enough!Windows System Registry: The devil is in the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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