Disabling "auto" clipping masks in layers

Currently on my home mac - if I 'create a new fill or adjusment layer' it automatically selects 'use previous layer to create a clipping mask'
The only way I can stop this is by alt clicking on 'create a new fill or adjusment layer' which brings up the 'New Layer' dialogue box' and unticking the 'use previous layer to create a clipping mask' box. I have to do this everytime which is very annoying
I seem to have set this as the default. How can I set it back to it's normal default of not using the previous layer as a clipping mask (as it used to be and as my work version does as standard)
Thanks

»Clip to Layer« in the Adjustments Panel’s fly-out-menu?
And please read
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375816?tstart=0

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Monika Gause wrote:
eobet wrote:
So, if I understand this correctly, two people replying here can draw inside compound paths, and two people can't. Is this a design premium feature, or why does there seem to be a difference?
Has nothing to do with Design Premium.
Maybe you'd like to show us your art. There might be other ways to achieve what you need to do.
Well my problem is that I can't do either of these:
Now, the stroke aligned to the outside, I apparently can never get around unless I choose to outline the path on that stroke, which means I loose flexibility (or add steps to my workflow).
And drawing on the inside... I guess I could make a clipping mask manually, but then I loose that really nice gradient I spent a lot of time to position just right... (either way, more steps in my workflow).
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