Window XP Tips: Turn off Autoplay
ADVERTISEMENTSAutoplay play feature is not only available in CD drives, but also on the flash drives and external hard drives that you connect to your PC. In any case your external drives or CDs are infected with virus or malwares, then chances are there that your PC could also be infected with the autoplay feature. Best way to combat this issue is to disable autoplay on all your system drives.
To disable autoplay on all drives, best method is to change it through Group Policy Editor. To do this click run and type gpedit.msc and press enter. Navigate to Local Computer Policy-> Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates-> System. Now on the right panel double click Turn off Autoplay. Now select enabled and choose All drives from the dropdown list and click ok.
Now autoplay feature will be disabled on all drives which you connect to your PC.
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Jan 25th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Nice, tip. I use to pres and hold shift key to avoid autoplay when I plugin a drive.
Jan 25th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
@Smackall,
Thanks for that tip. There are many ways I guess.
Jan 25th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Good one Nirmal, I was searching for this for a long time
One suggestion abt the website: Since you are using feedburner, can’t u activate the feedflare so that we can add post to delicious digg etc without leaving the feed reader?
Thanks
Anoop Engineer
Jan 26th, 2008 at 8:26 am
@Anoop,
Thanks for the suggestion.
Glad that it was helpful for you.
I have activated Feedflare for my feeds. Now you can use them.
Jan 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Nice tip, Nirmal
Jan 27th, 2008 at 1:00 am
I have been using this for quite sometime now . The main source of virus in our college is USB drives.
Mar 6th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Do all your readers have Win XP Professional?? I was surprised no one commented on their inability to find Group Policy Editor in their XP Home Edition. (GPE doesn’t come with XP Home Edition)
Apr 29th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
HI GUYS… I AM UNABLE OPEN GROUP POLICY EDITOR. IAM USING XP .PLZ SEND E TIP TO MY EMAIL ID.
sangam.ravi.sekhar@gmail.com
Oct 3rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
thanks for the tips. This is very useful for my laptop.
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