Sometimes a computer does the things you want him to do, but sometimes you must give him a hand. The last part of this sentence is needed for the use of the autoplay function which takes care for automatically playing CD's and DVD's when they are loaded in the player.

By default Windows XP plays CD's and DVD's automatically when you load them. Sometimes this is what you want, but you can also turn this behaviour off.

Follow the next three steps to turn the autoplay function off:

• 1. Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC
• 2. Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System
• 3. Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off and modify it as you desire.

No, this is not a panacea, but can quite wel be used for turning off the autoplay option. When you want to use this tip to turn autoplay back on again, you might have luck. There are several options to turn autoplay off and the group policy editor is one of them, every option to turn something off has an own option to turn it on again.

Last remark for this tip, it only works on the professional version of Windows XP. This is the version whitch includes the Group Policy Editor that is being used.