Abstract

I recently installed PowerDVD and it took over AutoPlay for pretty much all mounted media. This is really annoying. I wanted to stop PowerDVD from launching every time I put in a disc. Unfortunately, this wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. This article describes how to stop PowerDVD AutoPlay.

Disclaimer

This post is solely informative. Critically think before using any information presented. Learn from it but ultimately make your own decisions at your own risk.

Control Panel

PowerDVD does not have a setting to stop it from AutoPlay. Instead, what you need to do is go to the Window’s old-fashioned Control Panel. Once there, select “Hardware and Sound” then “AutoPlay”. Once on the AutoPlay configuration screen, look for all instances of “PowerDVD” and change the configuration to whatever option you want. Refer to figure 1.

Figure 1 - Control Panel AutoPlay Configuration

Summary

That’s it, very simple. Enjoy!