How to Disable Autorun For USB Drive (Pen drive) or Removable disk In Windows XP

How to disable autorun for USB drives or Pen drives? USB drives or Pen drives are the major carriers of computer viruses. If we use it only on our personal system there will be no problem. But when we use it on other systems of friends, clients and office systems there is every chance to be effected by viruses. If the Autorun for USB drives is not disabled on our system what happens is some viruses write a autorun.inf on the pendrives to trigger that virus when ever it is inserted in new computer. Autorun triggers the virus immedeately on our computer too if the autorun is not disabled.

Want to disable autorun for USB drive or Pen drive on you windows XP? We need to modify the Local Computer Policy in order to disable the autorun on our computer running on Windows XP. Follow the steps below to disable autorun.

1. Select Run option from Start Menu.

2. Type gpedit.msc in the Input and press enter.

Now you can see a window to edit Group Policy. If the file is not opened type MMC in the run input window and press enter. Open the file gpedit.msc from the folder c:\windows\system32\.

3. In the leftbar go to Computer Configuration and select Administrative Templates and then select System.

4. Now in the right pane look for Turn off Autoplay and double click on that.

5. Set the Enabled option and select All Drives and click OK.

Close the window now and save the modifications if asked to save.

Now the autorun is disabled for the USB drives and Removable disks on your Windows XP. You must undersatan that this procedure will disable autorun for all drives on your computer.

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