After installing Lotus SmatSuite 9.6 (Windows NT 4 WKS OS) on the D:
drive of my computer(second partition) it puts the Autorun files on
the root of the drive. Therefore if you go in to My Computer and click
on the D: drive it will try to runAutorun on Lotus SmartSuite 9.6.  I
have deleted the files on the hard drive for the Autorun and now it
looks for the files every time.  This must be a registry entry or
something.  Could someone please give me the answer on how to make
this stop.  Thanks.

Howdy!

Do you mean _specifically_ "AutoRun" or do you only mean "running
automatically" ?

True "AutoRun" does not normally operate from fixed media (hard
drives). You can stop a true AutoRun from operating by deleting the
file autorun.inf from the root directory of the drive.

You can also enable or disable AutoRun for a specific drive type using
the registry. The key that needs modified to change AutoRun drive
types is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun

...where NoDriveTypeAutoRun is a four-byte binary key, with the first
byte representing a bitmask and the next three bytes set to zero. The
bitmask for the first byte is as follows:

DRIVE_UNKNOWN           0
DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR    1
DRIVE_REMOVABLE       2
DRIVE_FIXED                    3
DRIVE_REMOTE               4
DRIVE_CDROM                 5
DRIVE_RAMDISK             6


In your case, however, it is unlikely that a true AutoRun is
happening, and instead you application is being started automatically
by other means. The most likely culprit is the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Inside this key are string values with the command line for all of the
applications that Windows automatically runs on startup. Simply find
the string value for the program you want to get rid of and delete it.

WARNING: Always back up your registry before making changes! You can
backup your registry by running the program RegEdit and clicking
Export Registry File from Registry menu.

Hope this helps!



HOWTO: Enabling Autorun for Applications Distributed on CD-ROM
Article ID: Q172078  
MSDN Windows Documentation CD-ROM

How to Test Autorun.inf Files
Article ID: Q136214  
MSDN Windows Documentation CD-ROM