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How can I stop my flash drive from automatically opening Windows Explorer?

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MatthewHSE

Discussion Starter · Jan 16, 2007

I have three USB flash drives. One, and only one, of these is automatically opening Windows Explorer every time I plug it in to a Windows XP computer. I find this frustrating, especially since I have set the properties of the drive to "take no action."

I read this thread....

http://forums.techguy.org/security/525758-dangers-using-flash-drives.html

...but I don't think that's the issue here since there's no autorun.inf file visible on the drive.

Any ideas on how I can prevent this drive from automatically opening Windows Explorer when I plug it in?

Thanks,

Matthew

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TerryNet

· #7 · Jan 16, 2007

"I have set the properties of the drive to "take no action." "

Just to make sure, you've done this for all types--pictures, music, mixed content, etc.?

I had sorta the opposite problem for awhile--I want my USB flash drives to ask me what to do. Two drives worked that way and one did nothing. I formatted the 'nothing' drive and no change. Then a couple weeks later it started behaving like the others. So maybe yours will start playing nice some time after you give up.

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