Tuesday, 20 September 2011

How to disable drive autorun?

Now a days there are lots of viruses in your school, college or in a public computer. These viruses can also affect your computer. Most of the viruses come from pendrive or flash drive. You can save your computer from being affected by disabling drive autorun. Here are few easy steps by which you can disable drive autorun.

  1. Open notepad.
  2. Type in that file as written below.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"


3. Then save the file as "Name.reg".



4. After saving, double click on it.

5. You will get a dialogue box like under.




6. Select YES. Then you will receive Dialogue Box as under.



7. Thats it your drive autorun has been disabled.


There is also another method to do it



1. Go to Start Menu \ Run and type in 'gpedit.msc' .
2. You will see the Group Policy window.
3. You should select Administrative Templates \ System in the tree view
4. Double click on 'Turn off Autoplay' .
5. You will receive a dialogue box like under.





6. Select 'All drives'. And then click on apply.

7. Thats it your autorun has been disabled.

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