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The tag 'auto mount' on WindowsForum.com covers user issues where Windows automatically mounts devices or drives, often interfering with preferred workflows. Discussions include Windows 11 automatically mounting Android MTP devices in File Explorer despite disabling AutoPlay, causing race conditions with third-party MTP apps. Other threads touch on network folder auto-mounting problems, such as empty network folders on mini PCs after NAS setup, and login behavior where the system auto-mounts an external hard drive instead of loading the desktop. Common themes involve troubleshooting Windows auto-mount behavior, driver updates, and settings adjustments to control or prevent automatic mounting of storage devices.
  1. G

    How to stop Windows 11 File Explorer from auto mounting Android MTP device

    I need help with Windows 11 automatically mounting my Android MTP player in File Explorer. Whenever I connect the device, Windows mounts it right away. I want to use another MTP app, but there is a race condition between that app and Windows. I have already disabled AutoPlay in Settings →...
    • ganeshrnet
    • Thread
    • android auto mount autoplay device enumeration device management file explorer group policy mtp mtp mounting portable registry shell hardware detection usb windows 11
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  2. tmarsh

    Windows 11 Empty network folder

    My GMKTEC M7 Pro mini pc consistently shows an empty network folder. Occasionally on a boot it will populate but then contents disappear. Internet access is OK, occasionally takes two or three tries to connect to a site. I recently set up a NAS on a Beelink Me Mini running Truenas Community...
    • tmarsh
    • Thread
    • auto mount beelink mini dual boot firewall home network linux mint m7 pro nas network discovery network issues network sharing nic drivers samba shared folders smb protocol truenas windows 11 windows networking
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Networking
  3. MikeHawthorne

    Can anyone tell me what makes my computer login to a page other than my Desktop?

    That's the problem, every time I log in it goes to my external hard drive and I want it to load to my Desktop? I want it to just load to my Desktop, it has been doing this for quite a while but I haven't found what is causing it! Mike
    • MikeHawthorne
    • Thread
    • auto mount desktop drive letter external drive file explorer loginshortcut mapped drives startup troubleshooting userprofilefolder windows settings windows tips
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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