Cant Enable Autoplay

i'd very much prefer to see autoplay/autorun asking me what to do whenever i plug in my flash drives but -


my bit defender showed me a warning on media autorun and i accidentally clicked and disabled my autoplay via bitdefender.


and now i cant seem to re enable it. i tried turning autoplay on from control panel, i tried turning media autorun feature off in bitdefender security settings yet when i plug in my device, i still have to manually go to file explorer to open it.


the problem existed when i was on windows 8. i had hoped that when i installed to windows 8.1 that my problem would be fixed but alas, even trying to change the settings and restarting a couple of times still resulted to a seemingly turned off autorun.


anyone have any insight or idea how to fix this?


thanks.