my son has been down loading and burning some music. ever since he did that i
keep getting a pop up bos that has "autoplay with a flashlight that appears
to be looking for a file" it has a cancel button and even though i click on
that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it stop?
Does the popup only appear when you insert a disc in an optical drive (CD, DVD) or
when you insert a USB memory stick, or does it occur at other times without
inserting any media? IOW, when do you see this popup?
If it occurs all the time regardless of media insertion, you may have an
Autoplay.inf file in the root of your C: drive.
First, set Windows Folder Options to Show All Files:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial62.html#winxp
Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
Double-click on the My Computer icon.
Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
After the new window appears select the View tab.
Put a checkmark in the checkbox labeled Display the contents of system folders.
Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show
hidden files and folders.
Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide file extensions for known file
types.
Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system
files.
Press the Apply button and then the OK button and shutdown My Computer.
Now your computer is configured to show all hidden files.
Now open My Computer or Windows Explorer to the root of the C: drive, look for a
file named Autorun.inf....if found, rename it to autorun.old, or delete it.
If the issue occurs on another volume than the C: drive, look for the file in the
root of the affected volume instead.
When done, reset your Folder Options to what they were, or at least for safety's
sake add back the checkmark for the checkbox labeled "Hide protected operating
system files".

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> my son has been down loading and burning some music. ever since he did that i
> keep getting a pop up bos that has "autoplay with a flashlight that appears
> to be looking for a file" it has a cancel button and even though i click on
> that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it stop?
jmlittle - 20 May 2007 16:52 GMT
Glen,
It does pop up all the time, just not when I am going to play a CD. I tried
all that you said to do for all my drive and did a search for both
autorun.inf and autoplay.inf as\nd I was unable to find a file named that on
any of my hard drives. I even did a wild card .inf and still couldn't find
any thing. Maybe it was something I did, but It said it did a search of all
hidden files also. do you have anyother suggestions.
Thanks
Jim
> Does the popup only appear when you insert a disc in an optical drive (CD, DVD) or
> when you insert a USB memory stick, or does it occur at other times without
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> > to be looking for a file" it has a cancel button and even though i click on
> > that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it stop?
glee - 20 May 2007 17:54 GMT
If you did a wildcard search for *.inf and didn't find anything on your hard drives,
you are doing something wrong, as there are a number of .inf files in the
Windows\Inf folder. Is that what you are stating....there were no results for a
wildcard *.inf search of the hard drives?

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> Glen,
>
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>> > to be looking for a file" it has a cancel button and even though i click on
>> > that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it stop?
jmlittle - 20 May 2007 18:22 GMT
Glen,
Sorry about the confusion. I found plenty of inf files but I did not find
any associated to autoplay or autorun.
Thanks
Jim
> If you did a wildcard search for *.inf and didn't find anything on your hard drives,
> you are doing something wrong, as there are a number of .inf files in the
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> >> > to be looking for a file" it has a cancel button and even though i click on
> >> > that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it stop?
Hello,
Autoplay Repair Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C680A7B6-E8FA-45C4-A171
-1B389CFACDAD
Disable autoplay
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
(Line 3, right)

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> my son has been down loading and burning some music. ever since he did
> that i
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> on
> that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it stop?
jmlittle - 21 May 2007 01:58 GMT
That worked.
Thank you very much
Jim
> Hello,
>
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> > on
> > that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it stop?
SingaporeWebDesign - 21 May 2007 04:41 GMT
Hello,
You're welcome. Thank you for posting back.

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> That worked.
>
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>> > on
>> > that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it stop?
jmlittle - 25 May 2007 15:19 GMT
My son did some more down loading and burning some music and the problem
returned. I tried running the same program, but it didn't get rid of the
problem. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks
Jim
> Hello,
>
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> >> > on
> >> > that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it stop?
SingaporeWebDesign - 25 May 2007 16:07 GMT
Hello,
Sorry, no other ideas.

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> My son did some more down loading and burning some music and the problem
> returned. I tried running the same program, but it didn't get rid of the
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>> >> > that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it
>> >> > stop?
Tom Willett - 25 May 2007 17:23 GMT
TweakUI has an item that disables autoplay.
Tom
| Hello,
|
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| >> >>
| >> >> Autoplay Repair Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C680A7B6-E8FA-45C4-A171
-1B389CFACDAD
| >> >> Disable autoplay
| >> >> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
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| >> >> > that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it
| >> >> > stop?
jmlittle - 29 May 2007 02:45 GMT
Tom,
What is tweakui and how do i get to it or use it.
thanks
jim
> TweakUI has an item that disables autoplay.
>
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> | >> >> > that it still keeps appearing. what is this and how can i make it
> | >> >> > stop?
Stan Brown - 29 May 2007 03:32 GMT
Mon, 28 May 2007 18:45:01 -0700 from jmlittle
<jmlittle@discussions.microsoft.com>:
> What is tweakui and how do i get to it or use it.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%
3Amicrosoft.com+tweakui&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0
&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

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SingaporeWebDesign - 29 May 2007 06:28 GMT
Hello,
Tweak UI gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the
Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer
settings, taskbar settings, and more.
You can download Tweak UI here (right column)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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> Tom,
>
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>> it
>> | >> >> > stop?