I was stumped by an inability to find the setting to turn off autoplay of CD-ROMs. Actually in this case it's a disk copy image of the CD-Rom "Reader Rabbit Toddler". Every time the disk image was mounted it auto-opened the install application. I could have sworn a setting for this was either in the "CD/DVD" system preferences or the QuickTime system prefs, but it appears in neither.
To make a long story short, there is no autoplay setting in OS X. I was remembering it from OS 9 - but OS 9's autoplay settings do affect CD-ROMs with Carbon autoplay applications on them - talk about confusing! To disable this irritation, launch any Classic application and then in the Classic Apple Menu select the "QuickTime Settings" control panel. In there, select "Autoplay" and uncheck the option to autoplay CD-ROMs. That will stop those pesky auto-launch applications from running.
To make a long story short, there is no autoplay setting in OS X. I was remembering it from OS 9 - but OS 9's autoplay settings do affect CD-ROMs with Carbon autoplay applications on them - talk about confusing! To disable this irritation, launch any Classic application and then in the Classic Apple Menu select the "QuickTime Settings" control panel. In there, select "Autoplay" and uncheck the option to autoplay CD-ROMs. That will stop those pesky auto-launch applications from running.
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