Vista - auto play

Please forgive me if I'm not in the right forum. My autoplay function is being change automatically and I can't figure out why. I have to load what ever ie.. jumpdrive, sd card, thumbdrive, cd/dvd and so on then the last program I used to do what ever with said media thats what opens. Instead of giving me the choice to pick what I want it to do. I have to go in manually and change everything to default and click save. All is ok untill I use say copy a music cd and it starts all over again. Say this time I have a picture cd, I put it in and the copy cd opens up. I have to go in agian change it back and start agian. It just a pain in the butt. Is there a way to stop this from happening on a permanent basiss.

That would depend - what software do you have installed that changes the auto play settings?

I haven't installed any software in months. Like I stated, it just started all of a sudden and is a big pain in the butt.

First things first - have you performed an antimalware scan (or a few - such as a couple of online scans, as well as full scans with whatever you have installed?

OK, I have ran all my malware, ad ware, spyware apps and there where a couple issues but fixed them. I went back to control panel and and and checked auto play and reset every thing to default. Checking out some programs to see what happens, playing music cd, copying a disc. Well the auto play tab popped up and to my surprise and my blindness, I just saw the little check box at the very top. Do this for all cds and it was checked. So I unchecked, I think my problem is solved. Yep that was it, just checked it, stoped music cd and ejected it and put it back in and got my auto play pop up and working fine now. It was staring me in the face the whole time, could not see if for looking. Thanks for making me fix it the hard way. Now I know. LOL...

in case it comes back, try disabling the UAC, that has worked for me before on a much alike issue.

UAC has nothing to do with autoplay default options being checked....

And if you want to run UAC disabled, fine, but don't go around suggest a potentially serious security threat to other people.

Thanks.