Windows 10: Disabling Autoplay/Autorun

I am doing myself a system security audit and I would like to clear some confusion on the differences between the Autoplay settings in the Windows 10 Control Panel and the settings that are on the Group Policy Editor.
If I Disable Autoplay within the actual Windows 10 settings as shown in the image, will that be the same settings as shown in the Group Policy Editor?
Thanks

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Windows 10 Autorun?

Thanks for your reply

I have already turned off Autoplay via system settings. I'm not sure that covers what used to be security threat from AutoRUN. Under WinXP you could turn off AutoPlay but still be exposed to a virus on external media delivered by AutoRUN. MS made available
MicrosoftFixit50471 purely to disable AutoRun (something different to turning off AutoPLAY at the time hence the Fixit).

You say: "There is no need to worry about virus threats which usually attack from autorun/autoplay..."

Can I respectfully ask what in particular has changed in W10 since win XP to give you that confidence regarding AutoRUN?

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Many Thanks

 

Windows 10 Autorun?

Hello,

As you are asking whether the security of disabling Autorun/Autoplay option from system settings is the same as disabling from the registry and will take affect in the same way. There is no need to worry about virus threats which usually attack from autorun/autoplay.
If you want to disable autorun/autoplay from registry, follow the steps provided below:

• Type regedit in the search box and press Enter.
• Navigate to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
• In the right pane of the window create a new DWORD value "NoDriveTypeAutorun".
• Set the value based on the following requirements:
  • FF – To disable AutoRun on all drives
  • 20 – To disable AutoRun on CD-ROM drives
  • 4 – To disable AutoRun on removable drives
  • 8 – To disable AutoRun on fixed drives
  • 10 – To disable AutoRun on network drives
  • 40 – To disable AutoRun on RAM disks
  • 1 – To disable AutoRun on unknown drives
• If you want to disable AutoRun on a certain combination of drives, you’ll have to combine their values. For example, if you want to disable AutoRun on CD-ROM and removable drives, set the value of DWORD to 28.
• If you want to return AutoRun functionality, just delete the NoDriveTypeAutorun DWORD value.

Note: This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore,
make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following
article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ )

How to back up and restore the registry in Windows


Hope this helps. Keep us posted on the status for further assistance.

 

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable...toplay-windows

If as suggested here, the end result is exactly the same registry change, there is no difference.

You can test that for yourself using a free utility called regshot. This takes a snapshot of the registry; you then make the change; take a second snapshot, then compare them.

All changes made between the two are listed.