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Disable CD-ROM autorun

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Time Required: 1 Minute, 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes

Notes: This disabled any boxes from showing up after you insert a CD into the CD drive.

Warnings: This is dangerous if you do not know what you are doing. I do not take responsibility for anything that you do to your computer that harms it or any files on it in any way.

Written By: LB

Edited By: Max Feinstein

How to do it:

  • Navigate to Start > Run and click on Run.
  • In the input field, type "regedit" and then press enter.
  • Navigate to the following key in the registry by clicking on the +'s next to the folders in the left pane (see picture below).
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Cdrom
  • Locate a key called "AutoRun".
  • Double click the key.
  • Change the value of the key to 0.
  • Click OK.
  • Close regedit.

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Regedit's left hand pane.

  

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