Enable or Disable Automount of New Disks and Drives in Windows  

65Cobra427SC said:

Glad I ran across this thread while searching for exactly what you provided, and you did an excellent job. My only thought... wondering if batch files would have any advantage/disadvantage over reg files.

Hello,

A .reg or .bat file would both make the same registry changes, but you could include a command in the .bat file to restart the computer afterwards where you would have to manually restart afterwards with a .reg file.

Note: colesearle started a thread on the same question here:
Automount keeps getting disabled. How to stop.

Hello @Brink,

As a quicker alternative to using diskpart for Option One: Check if Automount is Currently Enabled or Disabled you can use this Command in a CMD Prompt:

Code:

@echo off & (for /f "tokens=1* delims=:" %x in ('REG QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\mountmgr /v NoAutoMount ^| findstr /n "^"') do echo( %y) & pause & exit

OUTPUT:

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\mountmgr
     NoAutoMount    REG_DWORD    0x0

Where 0x0=Enabled and 0x1=Disabled

This also works in Windows 11.

I hope this helps.