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Autoplay, Autorun – Is it annoying you?

If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 and are fed-up of the autoplay function that is enabled by standard there is an easy way to change the behaviour. If you go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Autoplay you can disable it by un-checking the box at the top of the screen. If you just want to change what happens you can select a default function for different types of media.

If you are having this trouble while using Windows Media Player 11 and you can’t stop it from stopping the current film when you insert a disk, you could be out of luck. This seems to be a feature that can’t be disabled in media player. There is quite a lot of discussion about it online, if it does annoy you it may be a small comfort to know you aren’t alone!

Posted in Software by Marc on July 25, 2010


4 Comments »

  1. My Win7 ask me each time by default.

    Comment by ELF — July 27, 2010 @ 11:17 am

  2. I ALWAYS disable autorun on all of my PCs. Its one of the first things I do. Very annoying

    Comment by Affordable Web Design — July 27, 2010 @ 7:54 pm

  3. The autoplay and the autorun function always get on my nerves. It is very exasperating every time I see them popping out of the screen. I usually disable it. Good thing, I’m not using Windows Media Player 11.

    Comment by AC — July 29, 2010 @ 6:49 am

  4. Thanks for providing this useful information.I am also always disable autoplay option on my PC.

    Comment by GPS Tracking Devices — July 30, 2010 @ 8:46 am

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