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Tool World => Research and questions => Topic started by: gbrao on December 30, 2020, 05:05:24 PM

Title: MiniTool Partition Wizard and Windows Autoplay setting.
Post by: gbrao on December 30, 2020, 05:05:24 PM

Many forum members use MiniTool Partition Wizard.

I always have Windows Autoplay disabled. When I run and exit MiniTool Partition Wizard, I find Autoplay enabled.

I have noticed this with more than one version of MPW and on more than one version of Windows, 32 & 64 bit.

Can anyone here confirm this ?

I have e-mailed MPW about this, btw.

Title: Re: MiniTool Partition Wizard and Windows Autoplay setting.
Post by: cretino on December 31, 2020, 02:31:52 AM

hi gbrao

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Can anyone here confirm this ?

yes, mtpw add this key to registry

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers]
"DisableAutoplay"=dword:00000000

Title: Re: MiniTool Partition Wizard and Windows Autoplay setting.
Post by: gbrao on December 31, 2020, 06:12:22 AM

Yes. In my case it was set to 1 before running MPW.

Why would any program do this ? Without even informing users ?

It's quite a lousy/shady thing to do.

EDIT : And, I'm not sure of this, it persists. Even if you exit MTW and disable Autoplay it gets enabled automatically. Perhaps it's the pwdrvio service doing it.

Title: Re: MiniTool Partition Wizard and Windows Autoplay setting.
Post by: gbrao on December 31, 2020, 11:53:21 AM

From MPW :

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Dear Customer,

Thanks for the feedback.

We tested on our side, and it indeed has such an issue. We will forward it to our development for further investigation.

Best Wishes for 2021

Lula