Saturday, February 9, 2008

Disable autorun

Lots of pen drive virus infection is occurring due to autorun. if you want to disable it, here is how.

In Windows XP, you can disable autoplay for the entire computer or just one user account by doing the following:
Start -> Run...
type "gpedit.msc"
This is the group policies editor.
Click "Administrative Templates"
then "System" then find "Turn off Autoplay"
Double click it and set it to "Enable"
You can choose to turn it off for CD Drives or All Drives from the dropdown menu.

Note that you must be logged into an administrator account to do this.

Courtesy of Topu Bhai

1 comment:

  1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
    Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced doesnt works for me.... the value itself changes to 0 or 2 and if it 1 even then hidden files doesnt shows up.. any suggestions regarding this???

    ReplyDelete

Please, no abusive word, no spam.