Although the tendency of many users is to try to acquire ultra-portable computers due to the ease that this entails when we have to transport them from one place to another, there is still another group of users who use personal and traditional computers, that is That is, desktops and laptops with a conventional size.
It is in the latter where we can find the respective tray to place the DVD disc, which could contain data, some specialized software or simply a movie. For any of these cases, once the DVD disc has been inserted into the tray, the automatic playback window will immediately appear, a situation that can be annoying if we do not require any of these functions to execute in the first instance.
Why disable automatic playback on our DVD discs?
Although we have suggested as a current task, deactivating this automatic playback function on DVD discs, the method we will suggest below It can also be used as a USB flash drive. or any other external storage media. Now, the reasons why we may need to deactivate this automatic playback function is due to a security aspect of our computer, since many files that have malicious code inside rely on the "autostart" of these units. storage (DVD discs or a USB pendrive).
In this article we will mention a specific example that differs from what we perhaps tried to comment on previously; Assuming that we insert a DVD disc that has a movie inside, maybe we don't need to make the media player run but rather, explore the structure of this disk in order to rescue the content to our computer (rip it). For this reason, we suggest you follow the following steps so that you can deactivate this "autoplay" function of a DVD disc within Windows.
- If you use Windows 7, click on the «Home Menu Button» and then go to «control Panel«.
- If instead you use Windows 8 you must use the keyboard shortcut «Win + X» and choose from the contextual options to «control panel».
- On the other hand, if you have already updated your Windows 8.1 operating system, you only have to right-click on the "start menu" icon located at the bottom left and then choose "control Panel«.
- Now we will have the interface of this "control panel" open.
- We must locate ourselves in the search space that is located in the upper right side of this same control panel window.
- There we will write the words «Autoplay» and then we will press the «enter» key.
If we have proceeded as we have indicated previously, we will now have as a result this function of the “autoplay” as a general title within the “Control Panel” window; A few options will be shown linked to this topic, with the one that really interests us at the moment being present, that is, the one that refers to "start or stop the use of automatic playback...".
If we select this link we will immediately jump to another different window, where an extensive list will appear that includes all the possible external storage media that we could be connecting to our Windows computer, that is, to a USB pendrive, external hard drives, CD-ROM drives, DVD disks (with films or blank), blue Ray discs and even units that can contain software or games to install in the operating system.
Assuming a small example for now, let's assume that we want disable the “autoplay” window for DVD discs when they have been inserted into the tray of our computer; Towards the right side there is a drop-down option, and you must choose the inverted downward arrow to be able to review each of your options.
What we choose here will depend on our taste, work preference and of course, need. For example, if we are going to need explore the inside of these DVD discs, then we should choose the function that will allow us this action. We could also define “no action” for this storage medium. In conclusion, the "automatic playback" of removable media in Windows can be configured according to our needs for use and work with each of them.