I find it very annoying when I go home from work and plug my laptop into my external hard drive… The autoplay window always pops up and asks me what I want to do with the files, which may be fine the first time, but definitely isn't after a year of that.

To get to the configuration screen for this setting, go to Start Menu \ Run and type in:

gpedit.msc[/color]

You will see the Group Policy window. You should select Administrative Templates \ System in the tree view:



You will see an item in the right side pane called "[color=#990000]Turn off Autoplay[/b]"



Double click the item, and set the radio button to Enabled, and change the "Turn off Autoplay on[b]" to All Drives.



Now you should be safe from the autoplay monster.