How to disable Autorun.inf

Here’s a simple trick on how to disable your Autorun.inf , there are ways of disabling your Autorun.inf from poping up a window when you insert a flash drive, one way in in GPEDIT.MSC, but it only disable the popup in window, but when you double click your drive, it actually runs your Autorun.inf in the background.

Here’s a way on how to disable your Autorun.inf totally.

1. Go to your Registry Editor by Clicking Start>Run and Type Regedit, or simply Hold Windows Logo+R then type Regedit.

2.) Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf

if you cant find the Autorun.inf , just Right Click the IniFileMapping, then Click on New>String Value

name it with “@” , and the value Data should be “@SYS:DoesNotExist”

it should look like the picture below.

Restart your PC.
Your PC Should now be safe from viruses that uses autorun.inf