Policy

Prevent AutoPlay from remembering user choices.

Microsoft Windows

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Prevent AutoPlay from remembering user choices.
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Category
Windows Components > AutoPlay Policies
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting allows you to prevent AutoPlay from remembering user's choice of what to do when a device is connected. If you enable this policy setting, AutoPlay prompts the user to choose what to do when a device is connected. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, AutoPlay remembers user's choice of what to do when a device is connected.

Internal name
DontSetAutoplayCheckbox
Policy ID
ef8ead0aca02
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
DontSetAutoplayCheckbox
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKCU
1
HKLM
0
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Both
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
DontSetAutoplayCheckbox
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.