Solved What is AutoRun and AutoPlay

[avinashrawat]

When I plug my USB in Windows 7 a Auto Play window appear that ask for General Options like (open folder to view files etc. ) but in Windows XP my USB directly open. Why.I want to Turn Off Auto run feature in Windows XP,How I can do this.

On Some blog i find whenever USB is directly open that's may become bigger reason to infected the system due to infected USB, please tell me are they right.

and also explain What is Auto Run and Auto Play

 

[Ztruker]

There is a pretty good explanation here: AutoRun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[derekimo]

On Some blog i find whenever USB is directly open that's may become bigger reason to infected the system due to infected USB, please tell me are they right.

You are right, that is why it was disabled in windows 7,

Windows 7 USB Autorun.inf

 

[avinashrawat]

@Ztruker
u don't give answer of my all questions

 

[avinashrawat]

@derekimo
how to disable Autorun in Windows XP.

 

[derekimo]

@derekimo
how to disable Autorun in Windows XP.

How to disable the Autorun functionality in Windows

 

[Ztruker]

You didn't ask how to disable autorun in Windows XP. I thought you were asking how to make Windows 7 autorun work like Windows XP, sorry.

Questions like these are ideal for Google: disable autorun windows xp