Why autoplay keeps popping up

I have a portable 2tb WD My Passport external drive, which is one of many connected to my pc at any time. This particular drive, will occassionally pop up in the autoplay menu when a drive is first plugged into a windows pc. I thought I had remedied it by setting the sleep settings but it still happens occasionally.

Today it happened twice in a two hour period. All my other external drives, 2 powered and two or three others that are 2. I'm worried this could be a sign of failure, it's only a year or so old, no problems detected from speccy and the transfer speeds are fine. Lutfij Titan Moderator. Oct 7, 40, 2, , 7, If you have a number of external drives connected to the system, it's a good idea to isolate al drives and leave only the Passport drive connected and see if the issue crops up.

On a side note, I'd personally advise on having your external drives connected to the system only when you need to access them, as opposed to having drives connected to the USB ports at all times. You must log in or register to reply here. Storage 2 Nov 3, Question Crucial MX M. Post thread. News Comments. Community Forum Software by IP. Sign In Create Account. Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled.

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It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I have a Seagate external 2TB USB drive that when I leave it plugged in, the Autoplay dialog asking what to do with the drive pops up about once every minutes. No matter how many times I tell it to go away, it keeps coming back. This is typically due to a power configuration option.

Go into device manager and don't allow the computer to put the device to sleep! I checked out all solutions from changing autoplay settings, USB root Hub settings in "Device manager", power settings, changing registry and nothing helped me until I found one post which helped me.

Or you could turn off autoplay. If you remove your hard-drive before shutting down, the modifications in the settings reset. This is a bug in Windows which keeps existing for years. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

Yesterday I did an uninstall of Incredimail with all it's massive files, then tidied up my computer using CC Cleaner. Now I find that Autoplay keeps popping up. If I go to MSconfig up comes the box; when I log on, up comes the box. I run Win7. My Dell laptop is a 64 bit. How can I stop Autoplay from appearing until I want it and why is it doing it?

Joined May 7, Messages 14, There are two things I need to see to help with this. When the pop up appears take a screenshot of it and attach it to your next post. Expand the window so everything is visible and then take a screenshot of that and attach it to your next post. Below the Message Box click on Go Advanced.

Then scroll down until you see a button, Manage Attachments. Click on it and a new window opens. Click the Browse button again to add any further screenshots. When done, click on the Close this window button at the top of the page. I don't know what I've done but having Googled the problem extensively I have somehow stopped Autoplay from popping up.

I think I went into Power somewhere and unticked a box that was about saving power by going to sleep. Does this make any sense to you? I did it several hours ago and since I don't have much of a memory it's a bit of a blur now. Whatever I did it seems to have worked - for the time being. Thanks for the update, I doubt that disabling sleep mode could have had any effect, but if the problem has gone no need to worry. Just one piece of advice I would give you is to never run the CCLeaner registry cleaner unless you have sufficient knowledge of the registry to select what it removes.