Stop AutoPlay on EHD’s

What I want to do? stopping that annoying autoplay on EHDs.

Sometimes autoplay is useful. You insert in a CD or DVD and your computer recognizes it and asks what you want to do.

But everytime I turn on my EHD, it also starts scanning that EHD and asking what to do with it. I don’t want to do anything with it, I want to use it. So there are a few ways to turn it off. I’ll start with the simplest.

All these instructions are for XP.

Simplest Option:

Click on Start | My Computer
Right click on your EHD
Select the AutoPlay tab
Select 1 of the 4 file types and then browse down and choose No Action.
Repeat for the other 3 types.
Click on OK

The second option is using Microsoft’s Tweak UI tool. It requires you to download the tweak ui tool but its still easy to do. For full directions visit: Stop the Annoying Auto-play Dialog

I have done this both ways and the best part is it stops scanning that EHD when it is turned on and stops asking me what I want to do with it.

And if you have Vista, visit this page for a long in-depth instructions. Although as I browsed through the directions, I saw no options for EHD.