How To Change Autoplay Default Setting Or Option In Windows Vista. Computer Screen Clock there. Recently, I connected a device to my windows Vista computer, and without paying much attention to the autoplay prompt, I just selected any setting so I could get moving on not realizing what I selected. Now every time I plug the device into my computer, nothing happens. How can I change the autoplay setting or option from no action to play when I connect the device to my computer When connecting devices, such as USB drives or inserting a CD or DVD into Window Vista, Autoplay will display and prompt you to select a default action or setting. Like many people, including myself, we usually do not pay attention to the selection, and become stuck with that action. Fortunately, you can bail yourself out of the selection and change the autoplay option. Explains changes in the AutoRun AutoPlay technology in Windows 7 when using with a USB flash drive. Hey guys, its juice here with my first tutorial leave in the comments below if you have any suggestions for further tutorials. The Windows 7 AutoPlay helps you select which program plays your music or displays your photos. Check out the enable disable settings in the control panel. Learn how to change the programs Windows 7 uses to open certain types of files. Welcome back People, Here is the transcript for the tutorial. The first option was Startup Folde. Windows 10 lets you easily set the AutoPlay defaults via the Settings app. See how you can enable AutoPlay for media, devices folders, and its options. Click on the Start button and in the start menu search box, type auto and press enter, or if search does not find Autoplay, click on Start Control Panel Default Programs Change Autoplay settings. Listed are all the possible media and devices along with their default or changed autoplay settings. With each media or device, is a pull down arrow that allows you to modify the autoplay action. Find out difference between AutoPlay AutoRun in Windows and how to enable or disable AutoPlay using Control Panel, Registry, Group Policy or Fix It. XQqN1Xd8/TdqO2fdrlTI/AAAAAAAAATk/LXhJizFkQQ8/s1600/auto_play_simple.jpg' alt='Change Autoplay Programs Windows 7' title='Change Autoplay Programs Windows 7' />Recent Questions and Answers on Software and Windows7. For example, if you wanted Media Player to start for all Video files, click on the arrow next Video files, select Windows Media Player then click on Save Browsing around, you will notice different options exist for other devices and media. Some of the common settings to choose from are Take no action, Ask me every time, and Open folder to view files using Windows Explorer. After making changes, make sure you you click Save to save the new setting. If you want to disable Vistas Autoplay completely, uncheck the Use Auto. Play for all media and devices located at the top of the Autoplay window To disable autoplay for one device or media, locate it from the list, and select Take no action from the pull down list. Unlike Windows XP, pressing the SHIFT key when inserting media or connecting a device does not by pass Vistas Autoplay, but  instead, opens Auto. Play regardless of the default setting. If Autoplay does not start after inserting media or when you plug in a device, but does work for other media and devices, follow the below steps as a possible solution Click the Start button All Programs Accessories, and then right click Command Prompt. Click Run as administrator. At the command prompt, type net start shellhwdetection, and then press ENTER. Restart your computer. Auto. Run Wikipedia. Auto. Run and the companion feature Auto. Play are components of the Microsoft Windowsoperating system that dictate what actions the system takes when a drive is mounted. Auto. Run was introduced in Windows 9. When an appropriately configured CD ROM is inserted into a CD ROM drive, Windows detects the arrival and checks the contents for a special file containing a set of instructions. For a CD containing software, these instructions normally initiate installation of the software from the CD ROM onto the hard drive. To maximise the likelihood of installation success, Auto. Run also acts when the drive is accessed double clicked in Windows Explorer or My Computer. Until the introduction of Windows XP, the terms Auto. Run and Auto. Play were used interchangeably, developers often using the former term and end users the latter. This tendency is reflected in Windows Policy settings named Auto. Play that change Windows Registry entries named Auto. Run, and in the autorun. Auto. Play to be added to drives context menus. The terminology was of little importance until the arrival of Windows XP and its addition of a new feature to assist users in selecting appropriate actions when new media and devices were detected. This new feature was called Auto. Play and a differentiation between the two terms was created. Auto. Run, a feature of Windows Explorer actually of the shell. Windows 9. 5, enables media and devices to launch programs by use of command listed in a file called autorun. Primarily used on installation CD ROMs, the applications called are usually application installers. The autorun. inf file can also specify an icon which will represent the device visually in Explorer along with other advanced features. The terms Auto. Run and Auto. Play tend to be interchangeably used when referring to the initiating action, the action that detects and starts reading from discovered volumes. The flowchart illustration in the Auto. Play article shows how Auto. Run is positioned as a layer between Auto. Play and the Shell Hardware Detection service and may help in understanding the terminology. However, to avoid confusion, this article uses the term Auto. Run when referring to the initiating action. Auto. PlayeditAuto. Play is a feature introduced in Windows XP which examines removable media and devices and, based on content such as pictures, music or video files, launches an appropriate application to play or display the content. If available, settings in an autorun. Auto. Play is based on a set of handler applications registered with the Auto. Play system. Each media type Pictures, Music, Video can have a set of registered handlers which can deal with playing or display that type of media. Each hardware device can have a default action occurring on discovery of a particular media type, or the Auto. Play dialog can prompt the user what action to take. Auto. Run activationeditThe Auto. Run sequence starts with the initial discovery of a new device or new piece of media. Following this, notification of interested parties occurs, of which the Windows Explorer shell is of primary interest. After checking certain Registry settings to see if Auto. Microsoft Directx 8.0 Sdk. Run can proceed, parsing of an optional autorun. The initial sequence is handled much the same in every version of Windows from Windows 9. However, the way the autorun. Auto. Run with Auto. Play has changed significantly from the time Auto. Play was introduced in Windows XP until the present handling in Windows 7. In Windows 1. 0, Microsoft has added the option to enable autorun in its settings. Not only users can turn it on but also they can choose specific external devices for autoplay. Initiation and notificationeditWhen a device with Auto. Run compatible drivers receives new media, a Media Change Notification event occurs. The Windows OS then notifies interested applications that a device change has occurred. The notification method used can change depending on the device type. If the device changed is a volume like a CD or a port like a serial port Windows broadcasts a WMDEVICECHANGE notification to all top level windows. Windows calls this a basic notification. A top level window is one which is a descendant of the desktop. However, if the device changed is not one of these types an application can use the Register. Device. Notification4 function to register to receive device notifications. An article on the Code. Project website, Detecting Hardware Insertion andor Removal, with clarifications from a blog by Doran Holan is of particular technical interest here. Non volume devices are those devices that do not appear as drive letters in My Computer. These are not handled by any part of Auto. Run any actions taken for these devices are taken either by device specific software or by Auto. Play. See Auto. PlayDevices that are not drives. When Explorer receives notification of a volume change, it performs a number of actions 56Checks to see if Auto. Run has been disabled through the Registry. If Auto. Run is disabled for that drive or drive type, Explorer does not proceed further. There have been bugs in this area. Checks that the root directory of the inserted media contains an autorun. Internet Download Manager 7.1 No Serial No Patch'>Internet Download Manager 7.1 No Serial No Patch. See below. Sends a Query. Cancel. Auto. Play message to the foreground window. An application which has registered its interest in receiving this message using Register. Window. Message can respond to this message to halt Auto. Run and thus Auto. Play at this point. Any application, foreground or not, can also be notified by using the IQuery. Cancel. Auto. Play. COM interface7 available in Windows XP and later. Alters double click and contextual menu behaviours. When a user double clicks on the drive icon in Explorer or right clicks to get a context menu, what happens is fully programmable by settings in the autorun. Adds an autorun. inf controllable icon and descriptive text to the drive icon. Checks to see if the Shift key is held down. If it is then Windows Vista and later Windows versions will invoke the Auto. Play dialog regardless of settings to the contrary. Previous versions of Windows will not continue with the process. Finally, if this point has been reached, either. Auto. Run task, the application optionally specified in the open or shellexecute keys in an autorun. Auto. Play. Which choice is made depends on the version of Windows in use, instructions from the autorun. Changing behavioureditBefore Auto. PlayeditOn Windows versions prior to Windows XP, an autorun. The Auto. Run task, if specified, is executed immediately without user interaction. This includes DRIVEREMOVABLE, DRIVEFIXED and DRIVEREMOTE drive types. Auto. Run will work with network drives the DRIVEREMOTE drive type that are mapped to a drive letter. Auto. Run will also work with floppy drives that are provided with autorun compatible drivers. The default Registry settings on Windows versions prior to Windows XP See No. Drive. Type. Auto. Run, disable Remote and Removable drives from Auto. Run initiation, leaving Fixed and CDROM drive types active by default. Introducing Auto. PlayeditWith the introduction of Auto. Play in Windows XP, the final stage action stage 7 above for some drive types changed from executing an application to invoking Auto. Play. From Windows Vista, the Auto. Play system is integrated into every aspect of media handling and there is no automatic execution of the Auto.