Disabling autorun/autoplay

[chewdz]

How do I go about disabling the Autorun, which is also know as the Autoplay? I've looked at the articles at the Microsoft website but i can't find the registry key or the gdpedit.msc file in my computer. Any other ways other than through the registry and editing the group policies?

[Tom.K]

From Microsoft Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953252/en-us?FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

This works only on
Microsoft Windows 2000
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008

For Windows Home Edition:
http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/secure-computer-disable-autorun/6698/ (look at comments)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1005112800135

Start > Run > regedit
Find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Win...
Make a new value called NoDriveTypeAutoRun of type DWORD. Make its value 0x000000b1 (hex).
Reboot to be sure it takes effect.

[md usa spybot fan]

chewdz:

What Windows OS are you running?

In Windows XP Home the following registry entry will to stop Autoplay:


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:000000ff


Tom.K:

I do not believe that setting "NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:000000b1 will stop all Autoplay.

The assignment of the bits to disable Autoplay are as follows:


1111 1111
││││ │││└─ 0x1 Disables AutoPlay on drives of unknown type
││││ ││└── unassigned
││││ │└─── 0x4 Disables AutoPlay on removable drives
││││ └──── 0x8 Disables AutoPlay on fixed drives
│││└────── 0x10 Disables AutoPlay on network drives
││└─────── 0x20 Disables AutoPlay on CD-ROM drives
│└──────── 0x40 Disables AutoPlay on RAM disks
└───────── 0x80 Disables AutoPlay on drives of unknown type
Setting "NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:000000b1 leaves some device types without the disable bit set:


1011 0001
│ ││└── unassigned
│ │└─── 0x4 Disables AutoPlay on removable drives
│ └──── 0x8 Disables AutoPlay on fixed drives
└──────── 0x40 Disables AutoPlay on RAM disks

[Tom.K]

I have met him on MSN and he says that he has Windows XP Home Edition SP3.

[md usa spybot fan]

chewdz:

With Windows XP Home Edition SP3 if you log unto each user account and set the following registry entry to dword=000000ff that should stop all Autoplay:


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:000000ff

[chewdz]

Should i change the value from 91 to ff or do i just modify the whole thing?

[Tom.K]

Yes, you should and then reboot (if you want to).