Drive not opening on double click?? autorun.inf virus

Many time many of us have faced this problem that on double clicking the drives they don't open instead it will ask to "open with" ..


its happening because your system is affected with some virus which has created autorun.inf file in your drives.

Steps

1)Open the task manager and see the process tab and try to identify the unknown process and click on end task after selecting it

or process explorer from microsoft might help u

2)Delete its entry from startup too..
[registry startup also]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

3)start>run>then type cmd and press enter

type the following commands
4)C:\Documents and Settings\a>cd\ press enter

5)C:\attrib -s -h -r autorun.inf

6)C:\del autorun.inf

7)C:\D: (repeat these commands for each drive you have)

Driveguard.exe virus

driveguard.exe virus

Removal of Driveguard.exe virus is very easy.
1)Open taskmanager and end the process driveguard.exe
2)Any .tmp extension is running then also end that process.
3)type->run->msconfig -> remove its entry
4)Del from temp files.

Formatting a pendrive from Fat to NTFS

Plug in your pen drive. Click start & Right click on My Computer.
Select Properties > Hardware > Device Manager.

Expand Disk Drives & Click on your Pen Drive Name. ( In my case it’s : Jetflash )
Now Right click on your pen drive name & select Properties.
Go to Polocies Tab & Select Optimize for Performance.






Click OK. Close device Manager.

Now open My Computer & Select Your Pen Drive ( ie Removable Disk ).
Right click on it & select Format. Click on File system box.
& Voila! You see the NTFS option.




Now select NTFS & fromat your pen drive.

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