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The original poster is asking how to prevent external hard drives from prompting windows to show their contents every time Windows 7 starts. A suggested solution is to change the AutoPlay settings in the Control Panel to "Take no action" for external drives, which would stop the pop-up from appearing. The overall tone indicates a technical query seeking a straightforward way to disable these notifications.

stonefox

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Every time I start Winduws 7 I have some external hard drives that pop-up to show their contents.
How do I get Windows to automatically approve these external hard drive, so I do not have to close those pop-up down every time ?
 

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Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\AutoPlay
Change them to "Take no action"
 

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