How to Disable Autoplay of USB Drives and CDs in Windows Vista/ Windows 7

Sometimes its really annoying to have the autoplay feature of audio CDs and USB drives. Suppose you wanted to play a track with your favorite music player, the autoplay option doesn’t give you that option and starts playing it with the inherent audio player. To stop it you need to know just more than ALT+F4. Again same with USB drives. You don’t really need a plug and play facility always caring too much about you. So how do you get yourself away from this unwanted care? Here is your answer.

• Type gpedit.msc in the Start Search box (or Start -> Run if you are using Windows XP), and then press ENTER to open the Group Policy Editor.
• Under Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, expand Windows Components > click Autoplay Policies.
• In the RHS Details pane, double-click Turn off Autoplay to open the Properties box.
• Click Enabled, and then select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay on box to disable Autorun on all drives.
• Restart.