Disabling Auto Run for most devices

[Nuclear Krusader]

Hullo,

I was wondering if there's a way to make a script or a batch file, or something that disables Windows' Auto Run feature for all devices but the optical drives. It'd be great if it worked on all versions of the OS from XP to 7.

Anybody?

TIA

[Force Flow]

Looks like some registry magic is involved:

Enable or disable Autorun (Autoplay) function for specific devices in Windows - Windows Valley

[Nuclear Krusader]

Is there a way to group all those edits into a single batch file? I know one can add/delete/change registry keys via the command line, all I want is to have one file I can have in my tools USB flash drive that I can just execute on the machines I have to work on.

[Force Flow]

@echo off
	
    REM create the reg file
	
    (
    ECHO Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    ECHO.
    ECHO [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
    ECHO "StatusUpdateInterval"=dword:0000000a
    ECHO "StatusUpdateEnabled"=dword:00000001
    ECHO.
    ECHO.

    ) >> C:\regedit.reg
	
	
    REM execute the reg file
    REGEDIT /S C:\regedit.reg

While this isn't the code you'd use for autorun, this is one technique you'd use for regedits in batch scripts.

Or, if you already have the separate .reg files, use the REGEDIT command to execute them.