For Safe Computing Disable CD/DVD or USB Autorun in windows

Posted March 18, 2010 – 9:50 am in: Computer Secutiry Tips, Computer Tips, Computer Tricks, Hacking Tips Tricks, Speed Up, Windows Vista Tips, Windows XP Tips
     

When ever you plug a usb device to the system or insert a cd/dvd disk, The windows Autorun Run utility runs and displays certain options like Open files to view, Play, Do nothing etc.Disable Cd Usb autorun in windows xp for security purpose Although this a good utility provided by windows xp operating system, It is sometimes very dangerous too. When A virus infected Usb drive or Cd is plugged into the system, the virus gets a chance to attack you Operating system, by running automatically when you plug your device in. So, for this safety purpose, we need to Disable this Autorun feature in windows XP.

Follow the below steps and ensure your systems safety.

1) Click Start –> Run and type  GPEDIT.MSC  –  This opens Group Policy editor window.

2) On the left side –> expand  Computer Configuration–> Administrative Templates–> System.

3)  Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off on the right side.

4) Double click it and select “Enabled”

For any further assistance to Disable Cd Autorun view the sample screen shot below.

Disable turnoff windows cd Autorun

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4 Comments

  1. REJAUL
    Posted April 20, 2010 at 6:08 am | Permalink

    GOOD…… KIP IT UP..

  2. yuvaraj
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 12:33 pm | Permalink

    ya,its very nice.i dono hw to disable autorun the drives.bt nw i get cleard.Thankz 4 the website.

  3. kiran kumar
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 7:57 am | Permalink

    good tip sir thku for ur answer

  4. sachal
    Posted February 12, 2011 at 1:49 pm | Permalink

    sir i want to know how i can delete the autoruun.inf files from my hard disk it is just ppermanently disabled but i am unable to delete them

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