you can always use ; in front of the key to disable it without deleting it for
testing
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At 10:21 AM 1/21/2009, DHSinclair Poked the stick with:
>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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