My first posting on the topic of Autorun/Autoplay, Test your defenses against malicious USB flash drives, described three ways that bad guys trick people into running. AutoPlay, a feature introduced in Windows 98, examines newly discovered removable media and devices and, based on content such as pictures, music or video files. Step 1: Pull up the Run dialog box (Win + R) and type gpedit.msc. Hit Enter to launch the Local. Enable, Disable Auto. Play in Windows 1. In this post we will see how to disable Auto. Play in Windows 8 using the Control Panel, Group Policy or the Registry Editor. But before that, let us see what is Auto. Play and Auto. Run in Windows. Then we will see how to enable or disable Auto. Play or Auto. Run in Windows 8/1. Difference between Auto. Play & Autorun. Autorun is used to start some programs or enhanced media content automatically when you insert a CD, DVD or another media type into your computer. This is different from Auto. Play, but the result is often the same: when inserted, the CD starts automatically, using a particular program. Auto. Play lets you choose which program to use to start different kinds of media, such as DVD, CD, etc, containing music, video, photo, etc. For example, the first time you try to play a music CD, Auto. Play will ask you which media player you want to use, if you have more than one installed on your computer. You can read more here about Auto. Play in Windows. Autorun is incorporated into the media types that use it, and you can’t modify it. When you try to play a CD that uses autorun, Auto. ![]() ![]() Play asks you to choose an action to perform - to play the autorun content or to skip it. Auto. Play lets you choose an action, and it is in a way, the successor to Auto. ![]() ![]() Run. In order to help prevent malware from spreading using the Auto. Run mechanism, Microsoft made an important change, starting with Windows 7. Auto. Play no longer supports the Auto. Run functionality for non- optical removable media. In other words, Auto. Play still works for CD/DVDs but not for work for USB drives. Auto. Play in Windows 8/1. When you connect devices to your Windows 7 . For example, the first time you try to play a music CD, Auto. Play asks which media player you want to use, if you have more than one installed on your computer. Although good, some of you may want to disable the feature. Here’s how you can disable Auto. Play in Windows 1. Under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Click Autoplay Policies. In the RHS Details pane, double- click Turn off Autoplay to open the Properties box. Complicated Fix: To disable Autorun for good in XP/Vista, you need to edit the Registry. As always, before you edit this database, it's smart to make a backup of it. This problem last surfaced in Windows XP. At that particular time the 'probable' cause was an application called Roxio Easy CD Creator. This policy setting allows you to turn off the Autoplay feature. Autoplay begins reading from a drive as soon as you insert media in the drive. As a result, the setup file of programs and the music on audio media start immediately. Prior to Windows XP SP2, Autoplay is disabled by default on removable drives, such as the floppy disk drive (but not the CD- ROM drive), and on network drives. Starting with Windows XP SP2, Autoplay is enabled for removable drives as well, including Zip drives and some USB mass storage devices. If you enable this policy setting, Autoplay is disabled on CD- ROM and removable media drives, or disabled on all drives. This policy setting disables Autoplay on additional types of drives. You cannot use this setting to enable Autoplay on drives on which it is disabled by default. ![]() If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Auto. Play is enabled. Click Enabled, and then select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay on box to disable Autorun on all drives. Restart your computer. Run regedit and navigate to. HKEY. You will see default value 6. ![]() C. Right- click on it and give it a decimal value 2. Hexadecimal value 0. FF). Exit regedit. This will disable Auto. Run on all drives. You can also download and use our Ultimate Windows Tweaker to disable Auto. Play. Microsoft has released a hotfix for Windows Vista to restrict Auto. Run entries in the Auto. Play dialog to only CD and DVD drives. Windows Vista users may want to see if they have it installed on their PC. Post updated and ported from WVC. ![]() ![]()
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