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How to turn off autoplay for external drives?
I have a number of external drives connected to my PC. When I boot, they all present an autoplay window asking how I want to proceed. I am trying to get them to do nothing at all - I rarely need to open the drives, they just contain data files that various programmes use when I run them.
Searching for a solution has not fixed anything...
"..... go to the autoplay tab inthe drive's Properties window and then..." - there isn't an autoplay tab.
"..... go to Autoplay in the Control Panel..." - The Devices pane is empty; all I have is options for movies, DVDs, CDs etc. Nothing for drives.
"..... create a new DWord called NoDriveTypeAutoRun in the registry and set the value...." - makes no difference at all, I get the same autoplay window for the drives.
And so on. I've found as many supposed solutions by Googling as I have drives (many) but nothing so far has lived up to its promise and stopped an autoplay window opening for the external USB drives I have connected, or subsequently plug in.
Does anyone know what I do need to do to fix this, (admittedly small annoyance: I just have to close all the dialogue windows each time, but they do spend several minutes sometimes searching for contents, quite unnecessarily; and small annoyance or not, it would be good not to have to manually close all the autoplay windows every time I (re)boot).
Many thanks.