When you pop in a CD/USB Drive in XP/Vista you get an AutoPlay Option Window giving you an option to chose the action to be taken directly using the applications listed in the AutoPlay Options.

CleanHandlers helps you remove the invalid entries from the listing. In addition, this utility can find invalid AutoPlay entries and also remove them automatically.

Application Fixes :

1. Select an action to perform box is completely blank for an event.
2. To remove unwanted entries from the AutoPlay window.
3. A junk entry appears in the AutoPlay window, sub-titled as <need provider>

AutoPlay Handlers are located at the following registry location in Windows

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ AutoplayHandlers \ Handlers \ <handler>

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ AutoplayHandlers \ EventHandlers \ <Event Name>

Note : Registry Editing is a tricky part, so do backup your registry before you try editing your registry.

Download CleanHandlers v2.4
(For Windows XP and Windows Vista systems)

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