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