Disable autorun on vista home basic

[Elliah]

i've read quite a number of posts on disabling autorun on vista home but they involve downloading some file that modifies the registry and i'm not very comfortable doing that...could anyone provide the steps to disable it from the registry manually? like which registry entries and values to modify?

 

[kimsland]

Easiest option:

Run Startup Control Panel (and remove any not required startups): http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

More advanced option:

Autoruns for Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Edit:

Oh just thought, you are probably talking about Autorun of certain drives so forth:
That's here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715

 

[DelJo63]

*IF* you're comfortable with REGEDIT

1) # Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE).
# Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom.
# Double-click the Autorun value, and type 0 for its value.
(If it's not there, create it by selecting Edit -> New -> DWORD
Value, and typing "Autorun" for its name.)
# You may have to log out and then log back in for this change
to take effect.

2)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows%20NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS: DoesNotExist" (## no space before 'D' ##)

3) Alternatively, the following registry key may be deleted:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2

4) XP/Pro
# Windows XP Pro users: Run. Type gpedit.msc and click OK.
In the left pane, double-click Administrative Templates
# In the right pane, double-click System,
#scroll down the list and double-click Turn Off Autoplay


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