I’m constantly inserting and removing a PCMCIA card with a digital camera’s SD card from my laptop. It becomes E: drive when installed.

Whenever I install the card, though, Windows XP prompts me to indicate what I want to do with the card. It has audio, video and pictures on it and I always want to do nothing. How can I tell XP to never try to autoplay anything on this or any card?

This certainly sounds like an annoying situation, but I’m a bit confused because when you get the window that asks what you want to do with the new PCMCIA device, you should also have a
checkbox on that window that allows you to specify whatever option you select as the default action in the future.

If that doesn’t work, or for some reason that window doesn’t include the default setting option, there’s another route to this option. This’ll require that…

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