Comments on: Disable Autoplay of Audio CDs and USB Drives

By: Jeff G

Jeff G — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:52:18 +0000

Many many thanks. This petty annoyance has been niggling me for years in XP. However many times I set Autoplay to “do nothing” in properties, the wretched thing crept back. Hopefully it is now mortally wounded. RIP.

By: atanu786

atanu786 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:21:01 +0000

Wow ! Thanks dear. I have been suffering for a long time. Now have got relief.

By: sixor

sixor — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:29:25 +0000

no more usb autorun virus for xp, thanks a lot

By: junaid

junaid — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:47:19 +0000

thanx dude it helped alot

By: Totem

Totem — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:34:06 +0000

@Dean : Try running command prompt by pressing Windows hotkey + r and type in “cmd”.. You should now then be greeted by the command prompt window.. Assuming that you’re location is on the C drive, type “X:” where X is the drive letter of your flash drive.. Then after that type “attrib -r -a -s -h /s /d” and wait for it to finish.. It usually takes time to finish up depending on the number of files on your flash drive.. After that, open your flash drive through explorer.. And delete those recycle bin and recycler folders plus all the suspicious files and the autorun.ini .. Type those commands w/o the quotes.. Goodluck

By: Clayton

Clayton — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:59:04 +0000

There must be a God because my prayers have been answered. -) I’m constantly having to switch out multiple external drives and the autoplay feature was driving me crazy!!! I ended up going with the Tweak UI solution because I still wanted my CD-ROM to use this feature but not anything else. Thanks again for the knowledge to overcome yet another “useful” Microsoft feature!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:38:30 +0000

To James from 3 comments above: I found an easier and less expensive way to block autplay on USB devices. It’s called “Auto Play Squelch” and you can find it on softwarecandy.com.

By: dean

dean — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:41:40 +0000

Hey I got some virus called W32.silly.exe and its in a hidden folder on my USB called RECYCLER inside the recycle bin! and i cant see it! only my virus scanner picked it up and it wont remove it. Can any1 help me out here?

By: Deon

Deon — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:46:29 +0000

Thank you for this advice I have been battleing with USB modem device in South Africa constant conflict what was happening the device keeps on wanting to install the connection software even though it is already installed hopefully this will kill the problem now

By: James

James — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:44:01 +0000

The easiest way to block USB and other external devices on your network is to use a software called AccessPatrol (www.AccessPatrol.com)