Windows 7 autorun enabled... yet disabled?

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Published on 2010-03-16T07:48:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 7:56 UTC
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The checkbox "Use AutoPlay for all media and devices" is checked.

Yet, at some point in time, my computer has stopped giving me AutoPlay prompts.

I can't really elaborate beyond this because that's basically all there is to observe.

Does anyone know of a solution?

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