Autorun – How to disable the Autorun and Autoplay on all drives!

For Performance or versus virus?

I would say for SECURITY!

It is very easy to infect a machine, in big companies and school one of the biggest problems are USB keys, now many viruses copy themselves to all the drives, hard disks, different partitions and to the USB keys attached to a computer, and create a file called autorun.inf that instructs windows to start the virus.
When the USB key is moved to another computer, also this computer can be infected very easily when the USB key is insterted on the USB port. Why? Because by default Windows will open it automatically!

How to disable the Autorun-Autoplay? You need to edit the Registry.

1. Type regedit in the Start Search dialog box.
2. Go to this path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. If it is not present, create a dword called NoDriveTypeAutoRun
4. Set NoDriveTypeAutoRun = 000000FF
5. 000000FF (decimal 255) disables AutoRun on all drives.
6. Refer to the above table, and use a Hexadecimal calculator to compute the most suitable value for your machine.
7. You don’t need to restart the machine, it should immediately work without logging off.

If you need to disable it on some drives only, you can change the dword to one of those values, as you can see in the previous example it’s used the last one of the table: 0XFF

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