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Old February 13th 18, 09:37 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ed Cryer
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Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
I have an external HD plugged permanently into this machine.
For some time now whenever I did a reboot it would produce the
autoplay GUI. But now it's started doing the same with a boot as well.
Checkdisk comes clean, 0% fragmented.

Does anybody know the cause?

Ed


Process Explorer gives these as accessing the drive;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1awqe059to...xpl-J.jpg?dl=0

Oh and, incidentally, autoplay is set to "Ask me every time".

Ed


TXF related entries are transactional NTFS.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...=vs.85%29.aspx


It can typically be used by a backup utility, but why
boggles the mind. It's just annoying. The file system
itself has the USN Journal, which is another level of
journaling for keeping the NTFS partition in good shape.

I have one user with an external, who *cannot* get TXF to stop
with this nonsense, and to do a Safely Remove on the drive, he
has to put the drive in the "Offline" state in Disk Management.
I cannot reproduce the symptoms here.

The "System Volume Information" folder can contain VSS shadows,
again, a technology used for backups as well as System Restore points.
You can use "persistent" VSS shadows for tracking things
between backups (perhaps related to Incrementals or Differentials ???).

CHKDSK has nothing to do with Autoplay.

Neither would backups particularly be related to Autoplay.

Autoplay is probably related to Autoplay.

If it annoys you, why is it even enabled ? I'd just
get out my size 11 hammer and put an end to it.

When a feature doesn't serve any purpose whatsoever,
how long does it take to open the lid on your toolbox
and hammer the **** out of it ?

Same goes for automatically running stuff off an inserted DVD ?
Why ? Why is that even enabled ? Generally *I* know why I
inserted optical media, and *I'll" decide what happens next.
I don't need Clippy helping me with my "task".

Â*Â* Paul


Which gets the best attention from MS HQ? Win10 or Win7?
Win10: without a doubt.
People get demoted into Win7; sorry pal, but you haven't made the
corporate grade. You can't lie with ease, and traumatise your conscience.

The Win7 team aren't like Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible team; they're
much slower, less bright, slower, more focused on personal survival.
Me? I'd leap off the world's highest building with a string tied to my
waist; and I'd stop 6" above the ground, arms outspread and ready for
the final crunch, and rescue some member of the frailer sex.
A knight in shining armour; Sir Galahad.

Ed
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