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How To Disable Auto Play For External Storage

Do you ever feel anoying or fear virus spreading from auto play for external storage? Usually when we plug our external storage, such as flashdisk, memory card, external harddisk to USB slot in your PC, and automatically PC will trigger auto play and it’ll appear a mini form filled with some actions to select. So… can we disable it?

The answer is of course we can! To disable auto play for external storage you need to open registry editor program from menu “Start | Run”, type “regedit” and click “OK”. After the form appear, goto “HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer”. The default value for entry called “NoDriveTypeAutoRun” should be Dword 91. To disable it, you  must create a new entry for support auto play function. Click menu “Edit | New | Dword Value”, named it “NoSaveSettings”. After that double click “NoDriveTypeAutoRun” the entry before, edit the value into 95 on and click “OK”. Close Registry Editor and restart PC. The step has done, now you can try to plug any external harddisk to USB port, notice the Window’s reaction.

If you’r about to disable auto play for external storage, every data access from external storage must be opened by explorer program like Windows Explorer. Happy trying

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