1. Change Desktop Properties Settings
   Recommended for normal users
2. Edit Windows Registry
   Recommended for Advanced users

Let’s get start

Change Desktop Properties Settings

• Right Click on your desktop
• Display Properties Windows appears
  
• Click on Effects button
• Effects Windows appears
  
• Select Clear Type
• Click OK button
• Click OK button again on Display Properties Windows

Edit Windows Registry

• Enable Clear Type for the Current User
  1. Go to Start > Run
  2. Type in Regedit then press Enter
  3. Registry Editor windows appears
  4. Go to the following path
     HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop
  5. Double click on FontSmoothing (REG_SZ / String Value)
     
  6. Edit String window appears
  7. Enter 2 in Value data field
  8. Press OK button
  9. Double Click on FontSmoothingType (REG_DWORD / DWORD Value)
     
  10. Enter 2 in Value data field and make sure Hexadecimal base option is selected
  11. Press OK button
  12. Close Registry Editor windows
  13. Restart your Computer

  NOTE: If FontSmoothing and FontSmoothingType are not exist, you can create them

  • In Registry Editor windows, go to path HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop
  • From File menu click Edit > New > String Value
  • “New Value #1″ is created, rename it to FontSmoothing
  • Follow from Step 5 above
  • From File menu click Edit > New > DWORD Value
  • New Value #1 is created, rename it to FontSmoothingType
  • Follow from Step 9 above

• Enable Clear Type for All Users
  If you want to apply this setting for all user in your PC, you just need to use different path on Step 4 above. Instead of usin HKEY_USERS/Control Panel/Desktop
  you will need to use HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop
  Then proceed the same steps and reboot your Computer.

Basically Autorun is there to enable the conenience for user and give more controle to software vendor to bring up what want you to see when you instert/plug the media into your PC.
To find out more about what is Autorun, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorun

Now let’s look at it a bit closer. This feature could expose to a security threat where hacker or virus writer could take advantage of this to execute their file without user even know about it.

Autorun is enabled by default in Microsoft Windows and there’s no straight forward way to disable it (such as icon in control panel). However this is not the end of the story, it can be disable by editing the windows registry yourself or use a tool like TweakUI PowerToy from Microsoft

Disable autorun by editing registry:

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type regedit then press enter
4. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesCdrom
5. Double click on AutoRun
6. You will see a dialog popup with Value Data 1, change to 0

Disable autorun by using TweakUI PowerToy:

1. Open Tweak UI from where you installed it
2. Go to: My Computer > AutoPlay > Drives
3. Untick any drive you want to disable Autorun

Now you can have a peace of mind when insert/plug any media to your PC.

WARNING: If you don’t know or don’t have knowledge on windows registry, you’d better not to mess it. It might give you a serious problem if things goes wrong. If you know what you are doing, please proceed. No responsibility will be taken by this blog and its owner.

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type regedit
4. Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoft
   WindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
5. Right click on Advanced
6. Click New > DWORD Value
7. Change New Value #1 to EnableBalloonTips
8. Check if the Value data is set to 0, if not double click on EnableBalloonTips and enter 0 in Value data

Next time you restart computer, you won’t get those annoying bubble anymore.