gHacks technology news » modify autoplay http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Autoplay Cleanup and Removal http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/15/autoplay-cleanup-and-removal/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/15/autoplay-cleanup-and-removal/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:28:35 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/15/autoplay-cleanup-and-removal/ When you right-click a CD, DVD or removable drive and select Properties from the menu you find a Autoplay tab there that displays applications for certain media that are put into the drive. An action like playing or opening can be selected or that the user will be prompted every time a media of that type is inserted.

It sometimes happens that entries are still on that list although the application has been uninstalled already. There are other possibilities that have to be fixed. Those are blank entries or entries with a need provider text.

The software Clean Handlers can fix those defect or invalid Autoplay handlers. It can scan for and fix invalid entries in the lists and delete Autoplay handlers that are not needed or no longer valid.

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I have for example no intention to display images on media with Opera which is why I decided to remove it from the list. Not that I use the Autoplay feature at all. I prefer to be in control and select what I want to do with inserted media.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/15/autoplay-cleanup-and-removal/feed/ 5 Autoplay Repair http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/13/autoplay-repair/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/13/autoplay-repair/#comments Sun, 13 May 2007 13:27:42 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/13/autoplay-repair/ If you ever wanted full control over the Autplay feature of your Windows operating system you should take a look at the free software Autplay Repair which gives you excellent control over every aspect of Autoplay. Since there are different autoplay menus for different kind of media that are inserted you may select to remove, modify or add options for those menus. It is furthermore possible to disable the autoplay feature for drive letters. If your don’t want the autoplay feature for your CD writer you could disable it here easily.

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It is furthermore possible to create backups of those settings to revert them back if another program added its entries to the autoplay menu. Last but not least Autoplay Repair offers a great overview of the most used locations for autoruns. Makes it pretty easy to remove them. Still, the main feature is of course the total control over all aspects of the autoplay function in Windows.

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