There are many more options available and 3rd party applications can also add to this to give even more options. Sometimes though, this function might not show when you want it to because of a problem with Windows or a piece of 3rd party software has changed the settings without your knowledge. If you want to get this back when you plug in a device such as a USB stick, it can range from a simple fix to something a bit more difficult such as some wrong registry settings.
For XP: This is done on each drive letter itself and the Autoplay prompt may have been simply turned off for that drive. You can set individual Autoplay options in here later on. One of the ways the Autoplay function can get disabled is through an incorrect setting in the Windows registry.
There is a a specific registry value called NoDriveTypeAutoRun that can be set to a number of different numeric values which controls how Windows handles Autorun and Autoplay on various devices.
To set it back to the default value follow the instructions below. This procedure is the same in XP, Vista and Window 7. Navigate to the following registry key and repeat step 3 in checking and possibly editing the value of NoDriveTypeAutoRun. If this has been changed to any other value such as 0xB5 or 0xF5 etc, then it could be the cause of the Autoplay problem. The above default registry values have been made into downloadable reg files so you can easily set them back to default without going into the registry yourself.
Simply double click and import into the registry. The Local Machine setting will affect all users and overrides any Current User setting that is present. There is another value in the same location as steps 2 and 4 above called NoDriveAutoRun that can possibly affect Autoplay.
Where NoDriveTypeAutoRun affects a whole class of drives such as removable devices, this other value will affect only drive letters directly such as D: or J: etc. Alternatively download and run the below registry files which will reset the value for User and Local Machine. Thank you very much for the existence of this mystery solution.
I stumbled around with this for days since it was such a part of what I like in Windows. You have a great place for all frustration to end! David Thanks Hal, This was driving me crazy. I went to the search box and typed in Autoplay.
Opened it and it gives you a list of everything that can be available, After installing the latest MS updates, it quit working. The option for Autoplay was unchecked.
Checked the box and now everything is back to normal. Added the two registry files as this help explained seeing they were missing, rebooted the computer, works fine now. Many thanks. I called Western Digital to explain the situation and was told that it was a windows problem. It seems to take the drive a long time to load up. Perhaps, it is also the cause of your issue.
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