Sunday, January 25, 2009

How to disable "autoplay" of removable devices.

Auto-play of medias such as CDs, USB flash drives, etc. is usually the common culprit of virus infection these days. This is enabled by default installation of Windows.

To disable it, execute these simple procedures below in chronological order:
  1. Type gpedit.msc on command prompt or start menu \ run
  2. You will see the "group policy" management console window, select Local Computer Policy \ Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ System under the tree view.
  3. You will see an item in the right side pane called Turn off Autoplay.
  4. Double click the item, and set the radio button to Enabled, and change the "Turn off Autoplay on" to All Drives.

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