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Saturday 5 October 2013

How to disable USB, CD/DVD drives Autoplay in Windows 7

You might have noticed that, when ever you plugin your USB into the port or when you insert a CD/DVD into the drive, Autoplay option automatically gets executed. Today, I am going to tell you the most important computer tutorial to disable USB, CD/DVD drives Autoplay in Windows 7. By performing these easy steps, you will be able to disable Autoplay of any removable drives such as CD/DVD, Pen drives etc. It is important to disable their autoplay because in many cases, CD/DVDs and USB drives containing virus automatically gets executed resulting your computer affected by virus or Trojan horses. So it is very dangerous to allow any drive autoplay on its own, specially USB drives. So we must disable USB, CD/DVD drives Autoplay as quick as possible. I recommend that whenever you install a fresh Windows on your PC, you must disable this autoplay on priority basis. Method to disable USB, CD/DVD drives Autoplay in Windows XP is already discussed. Procedure to disable USB, CD/DVD drives Autoplay in Windows 7 is given below:

TUTORIAL TO DISABLE CD/DVD AND USB AUTOPLAY

To view and understand step by step guideline for disabling Autoplay of any removable drives such as CD, DVD, Pen drives etc; just read and follow the points given below:-
  1. Click on Start button and go to Run.
  2. In the Run Command Box type GPEDIT.MSC and press Enter.
  3. Go to Computer Configuration,  then on Administrative Templates and atlast System.
  4. Locate the entry for “Turn autoplay off“.
  5. Now double click on it.
  6. Then click on Enable.
  7. Select All Drives to disable all drives including USB drives or only CD Rom drive.
  8. Now click on apply.

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