Autoplay?

Sailor Steve · 08-18-10, 12:13 AM

An interesting (and annoying) problem has cropped up. Every now and then Autoplay starts to run, all by itself (which in itself makes sense because it's "Auto").

What happens is that I'll be doing something and all-of-a-sudden a little window will pop up that says it's scanning all of My Documents. This happens fairly quickly, but then I get a screen showing all the media players. It asks me to choose one, and then goes away.

It's not a big thing, but if I'm doing anything, the thing that I'm doinf freezes up until I can get the thing out of the way. I looked in 'Help' and followed the instructions, but that only led me to the same "Choose which player you want to run things", so it was no help.

What exactly is Autoplay, and is there some way to turn it off at the source?

08-18-10, 12:13 AM	#1
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Autoplay? An interesting (and annoying) problem has cropped up. Every now and then Autoplay starts to run, all by itself (which in itself makes sense because it's "Auto"). What happens is that I'll be doing something and all-of-a-sudden a little window will pop up that says it's scanning all of My Documents. This happens fairly quickly, but then I get a screen showing all the media players. It asks me to choose one, and then goes away. It's not a big thing, but if I'm doing anything, the thing that I'm doinf freezes up until I can get the thing out of the way. I looked in 'Help' and followed the instructions, but that only led me to the same "Choose which player you want to run things", so it was no help. What exactly is Autoplay, and is there some way to turn it off at the source? __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo