How to re-enable Autoplay for removeable drives on Windows 7

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Published on 2011-01-04T17:09:41Z Indexed on 2011/01/04 17:55 UTC
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When I plug a USB thumb drive into my Win7 PC, it no longer auto-launches the window giving me options like "Import Photos" or "browse". The drive is recognized but nothing autolaunches.

Similarly, CD's don't autoplay either.

I verified that Win7 is set to autoplay, per method 1 and 2 of: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/27544-autoplay-enable-disable-autorun.html

FYI, there is a similar question (but for Windows XP) here on SU.

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