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Is it possible to do safe USB autorun with Task Scheduler on Windows 7?

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Mar 15, 202611113 views
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I found out that Windows 7 doesn't allow autorun on USB drives. Is it possible to circumvent this (in a safe way) by setting up a task with Task Scheduler, which fires when the USB drive is inserted? At a first glance I couldn't find any related events with Event Viewer.

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I had the same question as you, and worked out something with powershell (windows built-in scripting) using techniques from the Scripting Guy Blog here and here. The script runs continuously as a background process, which you can start at system log…

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