Chris,
Thanks for this answer to Wayne's alternative. I have read thru the doc
several times now.
I'd really like to install this business, BUT I do have some concern about
the delete of the "moutpoints2" key. I do not have a key, I have a
Folder/Key. And, it has very much inside it.
I see keys for each of my installed I/O on the machine. This I get. But, I
also see many {big hex #} keys also which I really do not wish to research
prior to deletion of the parent key.
I do NOT yet use mountpoints for remote drives on my LAN yet. If I read
Wayne's concern correctly, once I install this "fix" I will NOT be able to
use remote drive mounts......Is this correct?
Ideas/suggestions? Oh, this is a machine that was upgraded from W2K to WXP!
Thanks,
Duncan
At 11:46 01/21/2009 -0500, you wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Wayne Johnson wrote:
I don't think I completely agree with this solution especially if you
have a lan.
Alternatively, the following registry key may be deleted:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
If one deletes this then won't they'll lose their mappoints for all the
other drives on the lan?
It just deletes the autorun cache, not the mountpoints themselves. Good
if you're looking to get rid of any memorized autoruns.
I do have a reg file that I run that disabled autorun
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\CancelAutoplay\Files]
"*setup*.exe"=""
"*instal*.exe"=""
"*setup*.bat"=""
"*instal*.bat"=""
"*setup*.cmd"=""
"*instal*.cmd"=""
"*setup*.com"=""
"*instal*.com"=""
"Y?kle*"=""
"Felrak.exe"=""
"Imposta.exe"=""
"KUR.exe"=""
"Ayarla.exe"=""
"sfc2.ico"=""
"evanims"=""
"00000001.tmp"=""
"updmoney.exe"=""
"hs\\media\\y\\11399\\11399_cd_fp.jpg"=""
"hs\\media\\y\\9953\\9953_cd_fp.jpg"=""
"hs\\media\\y\\9951\\9951_cd_fp.jpg"=""
"hs\\media\\y\\9964\\9964_cd_fp.jpg"=""
"hs\\media\\y\\9968\\9968_cd_fp.jpg"=""
"inf"=""
That only stops what you can proactively stop. If someone were to name
their malicious autorun blahblahblah.exe then you're not stopping it.
Christopher Fisk
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