Disable Windows Autorun Any Drives

Environment

• Microsoft Windows XP

Introduction
Nowadays, many viruses go to attack via autorun, therefore, disable it

Solutions
Edit registy - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer

• Add a value:NoDriveTypeAutoRun
• Data type: REG_DWORD
• Value: 0xff hex (or 255 decimal)

Code

REM Force to set to disable drive auto run

%windir%\system32\reg.exe add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer /v NoDriveTypeAutoRun /t REG_DWORD /d 0xff /f

Reference

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715/