How the hell do I disable the autoplay “feature” for my CD-ROM in Windows NT 4.0? The Windows help file is singularly unhelpful. All it tells me is “When you put a CD into the CD-ROM drive and close it, Windows NT Explorer plays the CD automatically.” I really hate this.
You need to edit the registry. Find the following key: “hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\cdrom\autorun”. Set it’s value to 0 (zero). That will do the trick.
evilhanz
from winntmag.com:
"10. Turn off the AutoPlay feature on your CD-ROM drive. When your CD-ROMs contain other resources that you access regularly, AutoPlay automatically launches the installation program each time you insert a CD-ROM. To turn off AutoPlay, insert a CD-ROM, open the My Computer applet, right-click the CD-ROM icon, and select the AutoPlay option from the pop-up menu to toggle AutoPlay on and off. "
I don’t know if it works or not, I’m on Win 98.
Thank you, evilhanz! You are now my favorite new member.
Sorry, Enos. I don’t know what the heck those guys are talking about; I can’t find anything with an “autoplay” label. Right clicking the CD-ROM icon gives me options for “Explore,” “Open,” “Find,” "Scan for Viruses,“Sharing,” “Add to Zip,” “Eject,” and a couple other things I can’t remember right now. Nothing about “Autoplay,” though. Bastards.
UncleBeer:
That’s sounds like a good sig candidate 
In any case, you’d be amazed at the stuff you can find by simply poking around in the registry. Some of the PC and Server monitoring tools I develop go after a list of important keys and values in the registry of target computers. In order to figure out which ones are important, you stumble across those that probably aren’t, except today.
evilhanz