To disable auto-playing of CD/DVDs or removable drives you can do it by modifying the registry. Or you can use the excellent TweakUI, it's part of the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP.
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Saturday, 21 March 2009
Friday, 27 February 2009
Windows XP Reinstall
My sister had a virus on her PC which resulted in it going in a reboot loop when starting Windows. None of the safe boot options fixed it and it was due a reinstall. Unfortunately it was manufactured by Maxdata who went into liquidation last year.
She'd lost the restore CD that came with the PC and we couldn't get a replacement so I did a vanilla XP install. This worked but the graphics/audio devices weren't detected. I found a really good tool which detected the motherboard type - it's called CPU-Z
As you can see from the screenshot it detected the motherboard type (P5DVC-TVM) and then a google search found the appropriate drivers, which in this case were on rm.com.
The chipset drivers need to be installed before any the audio,graphic and LAN drivers.
She'd lost the restore CD that came with the PC and we couldn't get a replacement so I did a vanilla XP install. This worked but the graphics/audio devices weren't detected. I found a really good tool which detected the motherboard type - it's called CPU-Z
As you can see from the screenshot it detected the motherboard type (P5DVC-TVM) and then a google search found the appropriate drivers, which in this case were on rm.com.
The chipset drivers need to be installed before any the audio,graphic and LAN drivers.
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