I put a cd in the cd drive. Suddenly the autoplay pops up. The contents of the cd are played automatically. Seems to be a good feature.. isnt it..

But, the trouble is that if that particular cd contains a virus, then our machine gets infected automatically along with the autoplay feature.

This is the situation in case of flash drives also…

So, how do we disable this autorun/autoplay feature ?

We can do this using the Group Policy Editor by going to run-> and type gpedit.msc. Press enter.


Navigate to

Local Computer Policy-> Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates-> System.

Now on the right panel double click Turn off  autoplay


Select enabled

choose All drives from the dropdown list and click ok and exit

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