Method 2: Take ownership of the file #ġ.Press Windows Key + X then select Command Prompt (Admin).Ģ.Type the following command in the cmd and hit Enter: The easiest way to remove autorun.inf file is to copy all the data to your hard disk and then format the drive containing the autorun.inf. How to delete Autorun.inf file Method 1: Backup Data and Format the Drive Method 2: Take ownership of the file Method 3: Remove autorun.inf file by using the command prompt Method 4: Delete Autorun.inf file in safe mode Method 5: Run CCleaner and Malwarebytes Method 1: Backup Data and Format the Drive # Make sure to create a restore point just in case something goes wrong. It doesn’t really matter which of the above case you have if you want to delete the corrupted autorun.inf file then there are various possible methods available and the next time you plug in your device the autorun.inf file will be automatically created. If you try to delete the autorun.inf and you receive the “Acces denied” or “You need permission to perform this action” error message then there are two possibilities: One the file is infected by virus & the virus has locked the file so that you can’t delete or modify the file in any way, other is that the antivirus has locked the file so that any virus or malware can’t infect the file.

The Autorun.inf was abused by hacker community and is still used to execute malicious program automatically on the user machine without letting the user know about it.

Windows autorun program