How to disable windows 7 AUTORUN

I have Windows 7 Home Edition. I want to COMPLETELY disable the Autorun feature.

I would use the "gpedit" basic tool but it is not available on home edition (it is very sad!)

I tried the config of auto in the Control Panel/hardware and audio playing, but it does not work. I see again my external hard drive USB "WD" icon in my computer, so there still playback the autorun. I even changed the registry key to "ff" NoDriveTypeAutoRun.

I want to take control of the back of my PC.

Thank you

Hi Buddy101,

AutoPlay and Autorun are two different features of Windows. Disabling Autorun of the control panel and of the changes in the registry to set NoDriveTypeAutoRun to FF key does not change the behavior of the Autorun.

If windows has all the tasks automatically when you connect the external hard drive, then we can say that AutoPlay is enabled.

If nothing happens and only the icon in windows Explorer and then AutoPlay is disabled, we can not stop windows change the icon because the behavior is by design.

Please see the link below which discusses on Autoplay and Autorun,

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/whats-the-difference-between-AutoPlay-and-autorun

I hope this information has helped you!

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