Disable Autoplay Pop-Up Window for CDs and USB Drives

February 14th, 2008
Disable Autoplay Pop-Up Window for CDs and USB Drives

 Its practically annoying after few times of having to close the pop-up windows asking what to do each time you insert a external drive or some kinda CD media. However, the pop-up window can he disabled. Here is how to disable the autoplay pop-up window for USB drives and CD’s:

Go to your Windows Start button and navigate to RUN…now type in

 Gpedit.msc and click OK

A Windows Group Policy window will pop up. This is where you configure the pop-up window setting.

group policy window

Click the Administrative Templates folder, then click the System folder.

On the right side of the window you will see (may have to scroll down) the “Turn Off Autoplay” item.  Double click that item.

set USB autoplay function

Now a new window will pop up, now double click the item, and set the radio button to Enabled, and change the “Turn off Autoplay on” to All Drives.

Disable Autoplay Pop Up Window for CDs and USB Drives

Now the autoplay pop-up won’t annoy anymore.

Note: This setting will also affect your CD-ROM autoplay function as well.

Pranjal




  1. Nic Stevens
    March 23rd, 2009 at 23:58 | #1

    This doesn’t work on “home” versions of Windows as there is no group policy editor.

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