Re: AUTOPLAY Bug? Digital Camera SmartMedia disk

Along with Dev's suggestion, you can try this utility:
http://www.bigblackglasses.com/staff...ds/autofix.exe

This is a utility written by Microsoft (provided "AS-IS", in other words -
no support) to help diagnose and fix problems with AutoPlay.

--
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup and Deployment

PATCH YOUR WINDOWS NT/2000/XP/2003 COMPUTERS!
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...n/MS03-026.asp

"Justin Ells" <046084e@acadiau.ca> wrote in message
news:SKf2b.61478$PD3.4632347@nnrp1.uunet.ca...

> I ran a system restore on my notebook computer. Prior to that I would
> typically hook up my digital camera via USB to copy pictures. The camera
> uses a SmartMedia 32 MB card. I simply run a cable from the notebook to

the

> camera and power up the camera.
>
> XP usually asks what I want to do when I turn on the power. i.e. Copy
> pictures, Open in folder view, Do nothing, etc. Since running the system
> restore, XP doesn't ask me what to do anymore. It automatically opens the
> SmartMedia "removable drive" (F to show the contents of the SmartMedia
> card.
>
> I've gone into properties of the "F:" (removable SmartMedia) drive to

check

> the settings on AutoPlay, however it doesn't seem to matter what these are
> set to as the problem persists. I've tried "Prompt Me each time to choose
> an action", along with setting it to specifically "Copy pictures...".
> Nothing seems to make a difference.
>
> So... Anyone know if this is a bug?? Or how to fix it? Any further info
> required?
>
> Thanks for the help in advance.
>
>