Disable Autoruns in XP and Vista

You may know that most of the computer viruses infects the computer through the pen drives is due to the autorun. There are several softwares available in the market that can disable or kill the autoruns. Some anti viruses block the autoruns if the drive is infected. We can disable autoruns in XP and vista in a very easy way.You will take only a little time to disable autoruns in XP and Vista.
There are several methods available for disabling the autoruns. One method which works in both XP and Vista is given below.

Open a notepad and type the following:


REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"


Save the notepad with '.reg' extension(eg:atrun.reg). While saving make sure that the type of file is set to 'All Files'.
Navigate to the saved location and open the file. Windows will display a message asking you wether you want to add these data to the registry. Click 'Yes'.