Windows – How to “Install or run program from your media” be disabled

autoplayremovablewindows 7

Recently something in Windows 7 has changed such that the default action for removable drives has become Install or run program from your media instead of Open.

I checked the AutoPlay control panel applet and everything is set to Take no action (in fact, the master check-box Use AutoPlay for all media and devices is cleared as well).

I also searched through the CLSID key in the register and could not find it in any of the Shell keys, so I figure it must be in one of the ShellEx keys.

Finally, I searched for information on this, but found nothing on how to disable (or better yet, remove) that option and revert the default action to Open.

Best Answer

I found the solution by deleting the following registry key (where X is the letter assigned to the volume in question):

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\X
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