Hi Petrina. This is a standard response when media is detected by windows. The autoplay dialogue is asking you what program you want to use to access the media, for example, opening in media player or open windows explorer so that you can explore the media. If you press tab when presented with the cancel button, you'll see the list of options. If you don't want the autoplay dialogue to start up every time you switch your hard drive on, go to windows explorer, select your hard drive and then select the properties from the file menu. The second tab is the autoplay options where you'll be able to change the defaults so that windows takes no action when it detects your drive. Regards. Kevin E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petrina Delves" <aunk99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "access UK" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 5:25 PM Subject: [access-uk] Problem with external drive. > Hi all, > > Please can someone tell me why, every time I switch on my external hard > drive, it says, auto play and the name of a file, and then the cancel > button. Is there anything I can do to stop this from happening. Thanks in > advance for any help. > All the best > Petrina, > Southampton UK > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq