I'm sick and tired of doubleclicking an optical drive only to have some garbage program open instead of explorer. Is there some way to lock those settings so programs can't associate themselves with the optical drives? I can't find half the stuff under Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > File Types and looking in the registry for some of them is a pain. Even when I do, some of the programs reset them. Is there at least some shortcut to disabling ALL 3rd party associations with optical drives at once? I'm also curious if there's some fix for disabling autorun so that the drive labels update when the disc is changed/removed.

Edited September 10, 200817 yr by Viper187

In the Registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NoDriveTypeAutoRun = 0x000000FF

(See this page for explanation of the above setting)

-OR-

Using Group Policy editor (XP Pro only):

Start --> Run... --> gpedit.msc

Computer Config --> Admin Templates --> System
"Turn off Autoplay" = enabled

Hope this helps.

Edited September 10, 200817 yr by TheFlash428

I'm reformatting tomorrow. I"ll try those. I hate all these **** programs that think they should be able to override Explorer as the default program for "opening" discs.