Does anybody know a way to deactivate the autoplay function of windows using c#/.NET?
A little summary, for all the others looking for a good way to disable/supress autoplay. So far I've found 3 methods to disable autoplay programatically:
In the end I chose the 3rd method and used the IQueryCancelAutoPlay interface because the others had some signifcant disadvantages:
1. QueryCancelAutoPlay
Note: If your application is using a dialog box you need to call SetWindowLong (signature) instead of just returning false. See here for more details)
2. Registry
Using the registry you can disables AutoRun for specified drive letters (NoDriveAutoRun) or for a class of drives (NoDriveTypeAutoRun)
3. IQueryCancelAutoPlay