Getting rid of annoying menu

[paullyboy]

Windows XP Home:

Every time I put in a CD disk or open an external drive, this miserable, annoying menu comes up that offers options like:

Preview pictures

View a slide show

Copy pictures

Play

Open folders

Download

Take no action

I just want to click into the disc or drive via desktop icon, and not be bothered with this box everytime. Is there a setting where I can simply turn it off? Thanks.

Best, Paul

[iamtheky]

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/dis...and-usb-drives/

or right click on the source drive-->properties, go to the autoplay tab, and select what you want to do for detected file types.

[paullyboy]

Thanks iamtheKy. I tried the Device Mgr. before with no luck. I just went thru it again, and used the 'apply' tab. Works fine now. Thanks again for the input.

Best, Paul

[infiniti25]

In vista you can also disable the Shell Hardware Detection service and this prevents autorun and the windows autorun menu you describe, I believe it will do the same in XP.