Okay how do i kill this wonderful autoplay feature on a win2k machine

sugestions involving violence will be considered !

well, without looking myself you can try holding the shift key on insertion.
but since im on a win2k machine, ill look.

Turn Off CD Auto Play Win2000 the Microsoft way

Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then press ENTER.


Locate and click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
To disable automatically running CD-ROMs, change the Autorun value to 0 (zero). To enable automatically running CD-ROMs, change the Autorun value to 1.

Restart your computer.

NOTE: This method disables automatically running CD-ROMs. If you want to disable automatically running CD-ROMs depending on the CD that you insert in the CD-ROM drive, you can press and hold down one of the SHIFT key while you insert the CD.
Additional Information
There are two other registry keys that can affect this functionality:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NoDriveTypeAutoRun = 0x00000095

-and-
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NoDriveTypeAutoRun = 0x00000095
The correct value for each is 0x00000095.

from here

recommending that you press the shift key to disable autoplay is a risky business nowadays.

heh
true

You can do it with tweakUI too.

Matt, you still use Be?

No I haven't used it for a while but I found the box while digging through a closet and thought it would make a good icon.

Gotcha. A good friend of mine (two good friends, actually) wrote BeCommander. Was just curious if you ever used it.