Autorun: good for you?

re: Autorun: good for you?

Matthew Nicoll — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:02:11 GMT

I have XP pro

I ran gpedit.msc from the command line.

There is no "Autoplay Polices" under "Windows Components".

I tried installing: Update for Windows XP (KB967715)

then rebooted. Still not there.

Any other ideas?!

re: Autorun: good for you?

n0de — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:04:07 GMT

ashley: you'll find the same settings by running "gpedit.msc" from the command prompt (start/run -> "cmd")

re: Autorun: good for you?

ashley — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:32:33 GMT

Hi, i'm working on window XP home edition, and there isnt group policy available. So am wondering do anyone know how can i turn off autoplay in this version??

re: Autorun: good for you?

Harry Palmer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:04:53 GMT

What about XP in a workgroup configuration. There appears to be no Autoplay Policies.

re: Autorun: good for you?

ALEJANDRO — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:54:06 GMT

HI.. COULD YOU BE MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT THE PATH TO CHANGE THE AUTOPLAY CONFIGURATION..?? THANX.... I HAVE WIN VISTA HOME PREMIUM EDITION...

re: Autorun: good for you?

Dan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:04:40 GMT

How can this be pushed to all domain computers using Group Policy; AD on W2K3 PDC? Can't seem to get this to work.

re: Autorun: good for you?

TechNet Archive — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:24:25 GMT

Rodney-- good point! It's group policy setting you can find in the local group policy editor. Choose Start | Run and type "gpedit.msc" to open the editing console.

re: Autorun: good for you?

Rodney — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:46:50 GMT

Noone is using this very "simple setting" because we don't know how to get to the "Computer Configuration" window. Or is this only on server computers? I would like to turn of general autoplay because of all the music CD's and thumb drives I use.

(Remember when the thumbdrives were part of the default boot selection for XP? I almost fell over when I found I could boot a computer with a thumbdrive!!)

Auto-Infect

NOD32 and Virus News — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:55:50 GMT

December 18th, 2007 by Randy Abrams Director of Technical Education at ESET PLEEEEASE Infect me This is what Windows says when you install it. You see, there is a default setting called autorun that will automatically run a program when you ins

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Steve Riley on Security — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:12:27 GMT

Last month, in my post " Autorun: good for you? " I described why I believe you should disable Autorun