A question for the computer wizards out there...

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Because of those never-to-be-sufficiently-damned-scum-sucking-bastards at Sony I've attempted to disable the autorun feature on the CD-ROM in this Windows XP machine. I did so using the Computer Associates Registry Patch and verified manually that the value of autorun is set to Zero.

But still, the damn thing autoruns everything I feed it. Any

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[zpgf]

RE: never-to-be-sufficiently-damned-scum-sucking-bastards

OOPS! Thought for a moment you were talking about my bosses. bonus day today. DO I LOOK LIKE I'M SMILING? :-(

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**gazes at your face**

Uhm... no, that would not qualify as a smile.

Bonus day?

[phecda]

Here's a couple resources for you:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxpannoy2/

and

http://www.annoyancescentral.com/

[phecda]

Oh, and this was the site I was trying to remember --

http://www.annoyances.org/

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Thanks! I appreciate the point in the right direction.

That Got It!!!

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After a quick search on Annoyances.org, Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun turned up. That article referred me to TweakUI, part of the Microsoft Power Toys collection.

I downloaded it, did as instructed, rebooted, shoved the HP Scanner Driver disk in the CD drive...

THE COMPUTER IGNORED IT!!! Woo Hoo!

Thanks for the point in the right direction. I'll give you full credit when I blog the pages above.

Take two weekend passes to The Mustang Ranch out of petty cash. ;)