When you inserting a usb flash drive or a DVD to your computer, a dialog appears which is asking you what do you to do to your new drive. This windows feature help us very much. But, it makes our computer more potential attacked by viruses because a lot of viruses are using this feature to make them automatically executed when a drive is inserted to a computer. So, in order to prevent our computer from virus attack, it’s better for you to disable autorun feature.

If you want to disabled autorun on your computer, you can follow these steps:

1. Click Start »» Run. Type “gpedit.msc” (without quote) and press Enter.



2. The Group Policy window will appear. On this window, navigate to User Configuration »» System.
3. On the right side of the window, find “Turn off Autoplay” item then double click on it.



4. On the next windows, select the Enabled option. Then click the OK button to save and close this window.

The steps how to disable autorun in Windows XP was done. Now, close the Group Policy Editor window. Save all your work then reboot your computer. It’s necessary to make the change you have made affected. After your computer rebooted, try to insert a new drive to you computer. Does the autorun dialog appear again? If it’s not, congratulation you have done a good job. If it is not, make sure you have selected the Enabled option on the Turn off Autoplay Properties windows.