Disable Autoplay of Audio CDs and USB Drives

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Disable Autoplay of Audio CDs and USB Drives

I find it very annoying when I go home from work and plug my laptop into my external hard drive The

autoplay window always pops up and asks me what I want to do with the files, which may be fine the first

time, but definitely isn't after a year of that.

To get to the configuration screen for this setting, go to Start Menu \ Run and type in:g pedit.msc

You will see the Group Policy window. You should select Administrative Templates \ System in the tree view:

You will see an item in the right side pane called "Turn off Autoplay"

Double click the item, and set the radio button to Enabled, and change the "Turn off Autoplay on" to All

Drives.



Now you should be safe from the autoplay monster.

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How-To Tuesday: Disable AutoRun on Windows!

by Phillip Torrone, posted Jun 29th 2004 at 7:00AM

Yes, this is a bit of a report from our post Monday, but we feel disabling

Autorun is extremely important. Last week we went off to buy a CD² something we, like a lot of people, do on a regular basis. We wanted to check

out "Contraband" by Velvet Revolver, the group formed by ex-members of Guns N' Roses, and the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots. We figured with

that much drugs in those boys, there's bound to be a good tune or two in there.

As with all our CDs, we unwrapped 8 layers of plastic on the way to the car and popped it in the CD player for the ride home, so far, so good²not a bad CD at all. After

arriving home, we put the CD in our Xbox (as we always do with our CDs) to copy the songs over to the hard drive for use with games or as a jukebox.

Next up, inserted the disc in to our Mac, started iTunes and then iTunes put the newly created MP3son our iPod. Also, the Linux box in our kitchen (Xandros) was able to read and make MP3s just fine

too.

Lastly, we popped the CD in our PC (Win XP) and also ran iTunes to add the songs to our library.

Was this all a dream? Did it really happen? It did. But it shouldn't have if it were up to the peoplewho made that CD.

After looking around on the web it seems the folks from RCA Records actually don't want anyone tomake MP3s of the songs on that disc, they don't want you to listen to the music you just purchased

on your iPod or even your Xbox.



The disc has "Copy Protection" from SunnComm called MediaMax, which on some Windows

systems will force the user to install software in order to listen to their music, and restrict what theydo with the audio (for example you cannot make MP3s). If SunnComm sounds familiar, they

should. These are the folks who were going to sue a Princeton student for 10 million dollars for writing a paper that showed by pressing the shift key while inserting the CD (and of course, pressing

the shift key still worked on this CD, according to all reports) you can bypass their copy protection.

Sadly, the way RCA and SunnComm want you to listen to music is pretty complicated. You'd needto insert the CD on your PC, wait up to one minute for it to load, click an end user agreement, then

only "listen" to the music. Oh, wait there's more. It installs software which blocks making MP3sand it requires a web connection to exchange "data" and keys. On the disc there were music files in

WMA format, but they don't seem to play on any device we have which plays WMAs²the site saysthey play only on "approved" devices. Yikes!

Well, for us, it wasn't an issue. Why? Well, we have always disabled "Auto-Run" on our Windows based system, since, like, Windows 95. The "feature" will, by default, automatically look for a file

called Autorun.inf on any CD you pop in to your system²if it finds it, it will execute whatever programs it is instructed. This is a big security issue, as there are a lot of spywares and viruses

distributed on CDs²so much so, in fact, Microsoft is disabling it in their next security-focusedWindows XP Service Pack 2. SunnComn and everyone else who is trying to "copy protect" music

CDs have really only one option, and this is it: using the autorun file on their music CDs to installtheir proprietary DRM software. But many people are becoming more vigilant about securing their

systems.

Disabling Auto-Run is something we think everyone should do, not only for security from virusesand spyware, but so you'll never need to deal being unable able to listen to your music on your

devices. Here's how to do it in Windows XP.

In Windows Click Start, then Click Run

Type regeditClick OK

Click >



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>

SYSTEM>CurrentControlSet>

Services>Cdrom>

Double click "Autorun" the value is set to 1 by default, change it to zero.

Click OK

Now restart, that's it!

We also created a file which will do this for you, just right click this link and "save target as" to your local file system. Then double click and restart.

Please, tell everyone to disable autorun, use our email option, IM your pals, whatever it takes.

If you a different Operating system or would like to learn more about disabling AutoRun, here's a

great article too.

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How to save your computer from viruses from USB/Thumb/Pen drive?

The most effective method of preventing your system from getting infected is to disable autorunfeature of USB devices. DJ tells us about disabling autorun feature on Sizlopedia. He tells us a



method in which he uses gpedit.msc and disable autorun feature but the problem is that gpedit.msc

is not available under Windows XP Home Edition.

So, I am going to explain how to disable USB autorun feature through registry editing which notonly works for WInXP Home but also for any other edition of Windows.

y Browse to the following key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

y Modify the value of NoDriveTypeAutoRun to df (hexadecimal)

Although I must warn you that playing with the registry can be harmful for your system and you

might end up re-installing your OS. Before making any changes, I recommend reading How to backup your registry?

And if you don¶t want to edit the registry then you can download this registryentry.

Download Disable_autorun.reg.

Right Click > Save it on your computer > Run it on your computer.

Press Yes when it asks for confirmation for adding the entry into the registry.

This will now prevent any virus from auto executing itself through a USB drive. In addition to this,you must have a good anti virus installed on the system as this method just stops the virus from

infecting the system automatically.

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Here's How:

1. If you use XP Pro, follow steps 1 through 8 only. XP Home users begin at step 9.

2. Click Start and then click Run

3. Type gpedit.msc and click OK

4. The Group Policy window will open. In the left pane, double-click Administrative Templates

5. In the right pane, double-click System

6. Scroll down the list and double-click Turn Off Autoplay



7. In the Turn Off Autoplay Properties window, select Enabled. From the dropdown next to Turn Off

Autoplay on, select All drives and then click OK

8. Exit Group Policy by selecting File, then choosing Exit from the menu.

9. XP Home users will need to make the changes by editing the registry directly.To begin, click Start

and then click Run

10. Type regedit and click OK. The Registry Editor window will open.

11. In the left pane, navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT _USER

Software

Microsoft

Windows

CurrentVersion

Policies

Explorer.

(Note: For help navigating the registry, see the Windows Basics System Registry tutorial).

12. With Explorer highlighted, in the right-pane right click the value NoDriveTypeAutoRun and select

Modify from the drop down menu. The base value will be set to Hexadecimal. If not, select

Hexadecimal.

13. Type 95 and click OK.Note that this will stop Autorun on removable/USB drives, but still allow it on CD ROM drives. If you

want to disable autorun on both, substitute b5 for the 95. (Thanks to Ian L. of Manitoba for the tip).

14. Exit Registry Editor by selecting File, then choosing Exit from the menu.

15. You will now need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.

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