Autorun Settings

Some multimedia disks, or even video game installers automatically bring up a pop-up dialog whenever inserted in your computer. The autorun feature can even come from USB devices, and is a common place for malicious contents to infiltrate your system. Luckily, these can easily be disabled and prevented with applications like Autorun Settings.

One advantage of the application is that it doesn’t need to be installed on the target computer to work. This means you can carry it around with you on a USB flash drive to manage autorun settings for more computers. Another consequence of portability is that the target system’s health status remains intact, because registries don’t need to be modified for the application to work, but only to apply settings.

The application is designed to take you through a wizard-driven process that helps you with elements along the way. The initial screen provides general details you need to know before going on with the process. There are only a couple of steps, which at the end might require a computer restart, so be sure to save your work.

Autorun Settings puts a list at your disposal with various areas that can be equipped with an autorun feature. By default, the system default settings are left on, so you can choose whether to disable for drivers of unknown type, removable drives, fixed drives, network drives, optical media, RAM disks, and all kinds of drives.

You’re free to select any of the areas you want to process, although picking the last one implies all of the above. Pressing start makes the necessary changes to your system, asking for a restart in the end. These operations can be handled with the default Windows features, but are a bit difficult to find by inexperienced individuals.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Autorun Settings is a lightweight and straightforward you can use to quickly disable the autorun features for selective, or all drives. This prevents you system from getting infected with such malicious infestations, and even if these are default Windows features, the application helps save some time.