Monday, June 28, 2010

Turning OFF Autoplay on All Drives using Group Policy

To disable Auto play of External Drives or Internal Drives or removable Disks please follow steps below mentioned. It's actually useful to disable Auto Play so that you will not get affected by any kind of virus which gets transfered via PenDrives or external drives. Also will avoid attack of autorun.inf virus.

  • Click on Start and open run.
  • Now type gpedit.msc, and Enter.
  • Now go to "User Configuration" -> "Administrative templates" -> "System" -> "Turn Off Autoplay"
  • Now select Enable and Select "turnoff autoplay on 'All Drives' ".
  • Select OK and Now you are Done!! 
Check This Link for details on how to remove autorun.inf virus

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