http://www.digwin.com/user/srobert/voted/hot digWin: Community news sharing for Microsoft Techies. en http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-has-finally-fixed-their-methodology-for-disabling-autorun-on-windows-operating-systems Technet article 91525 describes a registry key that can be set to disable the Autorun feature in Windows operating systems.  The registry key is NoDriveTypeAutoRun, which can be found at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer This key disables the Autoplay feature on all drives of the type specified.  Autoplay begins http://www.digwin.com/stream-your-entire-itunes-library-from-anywhere iPhone and iPod owners - especially if you’re audiophilic - would know how much of a pain it is to run out of space on your unit when you still have lots of music to transfer from your iTunes. A future software update from Apple may solve this little problem of storage. 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