Disable Device Stage Capability

Question

Is it possible to prevent or disable autorun/autoplay/device-stage by modifying regedit?

Because of some constraints, I cannot disable by Control Panel options.

I found some related questions here, for example, and some solutions provided by Microsoft, mainly involving this key on regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutorun

But none of these solutions worked, neither after rebooting.

Is there any other key or value that controls this kind of property?

Edit:

I don't have physical access to the computer, this is my two options are:

Do this through some script that modify a key/value from registry or programmatically.

Edit 2:

Changing the value of NoDriveTypeAutorun above to 0xFF disabled AutoPlay for media files but not for devices.

Uh, generally... if you can't do it with control panel, you AIN'T gonna be able to do it with regedit... can you even RUN regedit? and edit/save the registry? Lockdowns are for a reason. Not always a GOOD reason... but someone had a reason. Try holding SHIFT when you insert your device, it'll disable auto-run for that insertion. — lornix, Jul 05 '12 at 09:11
Precisely what kind of "AutoPlay" are you referring to? Because "Autoplay for devices" doesn't really make sense. A USB mouse doesn't have Autoplay; it has driver installation. — MSalters, Jul 05 '12 at 15:22
When a camera is plugged into usb port for example. It initiates the device stage feature (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-is-Device-Stage) — coelhudo, Jul 05 '12 at 16:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '12 at 09:13

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Try holding SHIFT when you insert your device, it'll disable auto-run for that insertion.

answered Jul 05 '12 at 09:13

lornix

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I don't have physical access to the computer. – coelhudo Jul 05 '12 at 14:03
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Well, THAT wasn't specified in the original question. But ok... – lornix Jul 05 '12 at 15:53
Yeah, I know, I made wrong assumptions when I said that I had "some constraints". Sorry and thanks for helping. – coelhudo Jul 05 '12 at 16:51

coelhudo · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-05T21:13:49.183

I found it. There is two categories:

- AutoPlay Turn On/Off

Set

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\DisableAutoplay

to 0 to turn on and 1 to turn off.

Or

Set

KEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutorun

the value with the mask to turn off. To turn on just apply the default value (0x91 or 0x95).

- Nonvolume Devices

Disable:

Set

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\NoAutoplayfornonVolume

to 1

Remove value

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\NoAutoplayfornonVolume

Enable:

Remove both values

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\NoAutoplayfornonVolume HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\NoAutoplayfornonVolume

Disable Device Stage Capability

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