How does one turn off *absolutely* (or so that it only occurs on demand, and 
never by default) the process that starts indexing any USB-attached external 
hard drive or flash drive in Windows XP?  It is never useful to me; I am always 
looking for an explicit file that I know how to find, or I'm running a backup 
to that drive with third-party backup software.

I suspect that this automated indexing (which presumably might proceed to 
automatically launching files) is the process that allows viruses to propagate 
on flash drives that are moved from one computer to another?

Thanks,

Fred Holmes


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