[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] eggz:
The website is below what I did to completely disable Windows from installing the Nook drivers every time it is plugged in. I also had the "Never install driver software from Windows Update" checked from Brices21's post but the drivers would still install everytime it is plugged in.

xxxx = http - still a noob, can't post links

yyy = www

xxxx://yyy.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-disable-automatic-driver-installation-in-windows-vista/

I never actually installed the USB drivers that indirect provided, but "adb devices" still detected the NT when plugged in.

This was my whole process to get "adb devices" to detect the NT:

With the NT plugged in and device manager detecting the 2 Nook devices as drives and 2 Nook devices in "other devices" and with automount disabled and USB debugging enabled

I also ran the runmefirst.bat at some point in time previously, so the necessary files were created already

***** Pulled this from the website above******

* Go to Start–>Search type in gpedit.msc

* Click the file to open the Local Group Policy Editor and show Windows who is in control!!

* You want to go here: Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->System->Device Installation. Click on the subfolder Device Installation on the left and on the right side you will see the possible restrictions.

* Right Click on Prevent Installation of Devices not described by other policy settings and edit this option, set it on ENABLED.

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From here the website says to reboot and set the option back to default. I did not reboot or set the option back.

* Going back into device manager, I uninstalled the drivers for the 2 Nook drive devices.

* Unplugged the NT

* Plugged the NT back in

Then I got the B&N NOOK Tablet USB Device with the broken symbol under "Other devices" in Device Manager

* Open cmd and run "abd devices" from the ntroot directory

The service should start and list the NT device as a bunch of numbers.

* From here you can run NookandZergy.bat to root the NT.

After rooting you can set the options in the gpedit.msc back to defaults.

I also tried installing the Indirect provided drivers as the USB mass storage device. Windows then detected the device as an Android ADB Composite device but "adb devices" from cmd prompt would not detect the NT. I ended up removing all of the drivers and repeating my steps to get "adb devices" to detect it again.

Hope this helps! It may not be the best solution but it was a workaround for me to get the NT rooted.

****Update*****

Just got home and tried to install the drivers and it worked this time. I was able to see the NT with "adb devices"

With the gpedit.msc edit intact, I plugged in the NT and Windows detected 2 broken Nook devices under "other devices" and a mass storage device under USB controllers.

* I uninstalled the driver for the mass storage device

* set the gpedit.msc back to "not configured"

* unplugged NT

* made sure debug mode was set and automount disabled

* plugged NT back in

Device manager showed a Mass Storage device under "Other devices"

* Update drivers for that device with the Indirect usb driver

* ran "adb devices" in cmd prompt and NT is detected.

So if there's anything to take away from my post...hopefully you can use the gpedit.msc to completely disable the autoloading of drivers.