Thursday, March 11, 2010

How to Disable Autoplay/Autorun

The best way to prevent infection by a Virus is to Disable Autorun. So how do you disable Autorun? The easiest way to do this is using Group Policy Editor which is a . To Turn Off AutoPlay/ AutoRun follow these steps :

Watch this step by step Flash Tutorial
1. Goto START»RUN gpedit.msc
2. Browse to the folder Computer Configuration»Administrative Template»System
3. Scroll down and Open Turn Off Autoplay option.
4. Enable it and select All Drives
This will be a system wide change. Instead if you need to turn Off Autorun just for your user account do the same in the folder -
User Configuration»Administrative Template»System

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