WinXP disables automatic playback skills

How to turn off the autoplay function in WinXP system? Many WinXP users are bothered by the autoplay feature. Especially when we insert a USB flash drive or a removable hard drive with media, the system will automatically pop up a media window to play it, which makes us feel very tangled. Let's take a look at how to close it with Xiaobian now.

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Close Method:

1. Open Run in the Start menu and enter gpedit.msc in it.

2. Open the computer configuration and find the administrative template.

3. Enter the system and select to turn off automatic playback.

4. Tick Enabled and select all drives in Autoplay Off, then click OK.

turn off AutoRun feature Description:

Once you insert the media into the drive to run automatically begins reading from the drive. This will cause the program's settings file and the concert on the audio media to start immediately.

By default, autorun is disabled on floppy drives and network drives (but not on CD-ROM drives).

If you enable this setting, you can also disable autorun in the CD-ROM drive or disable autorun on all drives.

This setting disables autorun in other categories of the drive. You cannot use this setting to enable autorun on drives that are disabled by default.

Note: This setting appears in the “Computer Configuration" & "User Configuration" folder. If both settings are configured, the settings in "Computer Configuration" are prioritized over the settings in “User Configuration”.

Note: This setting does not prevent automatic playback of music CDs.

The above is the method to turn off the automatic playback of WinXP system. If you want to turn it on again after auto-playing off, take a look at "How to enable auto-play function of WinXP"