OZO
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Re: Disabling 'Autorun' on USB and beyond. Need help.
No, TweakUI is not disabling the drive and TweakUI may be the best solution for you (personally I prefer to collect all such settings in a reg file that I'll execute at a new OS re/installation time).
When you apply TewakUI (clean "Enable Autoplay for removable drives" checkbox, see the last picture) all it does it changes registry value that I've mentioned in this post. The only difference is - it changes setting in HKCU (Current User) and not HKLM (Local Machine) as I mentioned, and, keep in mind, that Local Machine key has priority for that particular setting. It will protect your computer from Autorun executing some program from the new media when you insert it. But, again, it some cases you will be able to start that malware without your actual intent to do so (see my reference earlier).
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