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Guest Stephen
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I have a USB memory stick (Kingston DataTraveler 1GB) that I use for moving

files between my work and home computers. At work I run Windows XP

Professional and at home Windows XP Home, both kept up-to-date with updates.

Ideally, when I plug it into either computer I want nothing to happen - I

will run my file synchronization program when I am ready. This is what

happens at work. However, at home plugging it in sometimes causes My

Computer to open.

 

I have tried to disable all autoplay by right-clicking on the drive in My

Computer, selecting Properties and on the Autoplay tab selecting Take no

action. Several times when My Computer opened unexpectedly, I checked these

settings to see if something had changed, but all were as I expected. Is

there some other setting I need to make?

 

As a matter of understanding, are these settings stored on the memory stick

itself or on each computer separately? If the former, I can't see why it

doesn't respond the same at work and at home. If the latter, then is it

correct that you can't have different settings for different memory sticks?

 

Apart from this one annoyance, the memory stick works fine.

 

Stephen

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