Disable All Auto Play in Vista

Below is a way to globally disable auto play in vista:

1. Open Control Panel, if it is in classic mode, click Control Panel Home to switch to vista default style for control panel. And then click on "Play CDs or other media automatically" (below the title Hardware and Sound).


2. Select take no Actions for every media.


3. Save

Or, if you are using Vista Business or Vista Ultimate, edit group policies:

1. start, run, type: gpedit.msc


2. press CTRL+SHIFT+Enter to execute group policy in administrator mode


3. Expand: Computer Configuration, Administrative Template, Windows Components, AutoPlay Policies. Double click at Turn off Autoplay. Set enabled. You can choose Turn Off autoplay on certain drive or All drives.


4. Expand: User Configuration, Administrative Template, Windows Components, AutoPlay Policies. Double click at Turn off Autoplay. Set enabled. You can choose Turn Off autoplay on certain drive or All drives.

That's all :)

Gimp on Vista: svg.exe has stopped working

I've just installed Gimp 2.4.5 on Vista. Every time I run Gimp, there're always error message like this:

svg.exe has stopped working

helpbrowser.exe has stopped working

Checking the detail information, seems there's problem with libxml2.dll ( Fault Module Name: libxml2.dll ). Searching from internet, finally found out the workaround:

As administrator, copy libxml2.dll from the bin directory of installed gimp (default will be c:\program files\gimp\bin ) into c:\windows. And don't forget to backup the original libxml2.dll just in case it is required, by simply rename it into any file name, eg: libxml2.dll.original.


That's all.