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How to disable autorun in Windows.

Thursday, 22 July 2010 12:12 by Jim

Autorun is the most likely way to infect your computer. To prevent this we can disable autorun feature in Windows.

Press Start button ->Run.

In window that has appear type gpedit.msc and press OK button.

 

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At the left part of "Group policy" window select "Computer configuration"->"System". Select "Turn off Autoplay" at the left part of screen when "System" is select.

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Double click on "Turn off Autoplay". Point to "Autoplay" and in the drop-down list select "All drives".

Press "Apply" and "OK" buttons.

 

 

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