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re: Thanks, Anchor Man & JB
Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 3:53 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Matthew D. Healy
(1255 messages posted)
Yes it is ridiculous, but remember that the basic mechanism was
designed in the Windows 95 era, when CD-burners were
extremely rare and extremely expensive so CDs basically
only came from large companies whom Microsoft trusted!
My own approach actually is I leave Autoplay enabled for
convenience most of the time, but to play untrusted CD
or DVD disks I use Linux -- and ever since learning what SONY
did, untrusted CDs certainly do include audio disks from major
labels. Fortunately, SONY got spanked pretty hard after that
stupidity so other companies will think twice before
they pull similar stunts -- I hope. As Reagan said, "trust
but verify."
On Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 9:29 pm, dv wrote:
>That is exactly what I was looking for. Too bad it doesn't exist. I think it's
>ridiculous (but typical Microsoft) that when inserting a CD or DVD, the OS just
dives
>in head-first to do whatever the disc tells it too. And I like the AutoPlay features,
>but AutoRun (the AUTORUN.INF open=... thing) is fool-hardy and usually annoying.
> With all the choices you get for AutoPlay in XP now, you'd think they would at
least
>give you some options for the AutoRun feature. It asks me what software to run
for
>the DVD, but then says, "Oh! It has an installer too! Let's go!"
>
>I'm going to go with the Option #3 JB gave and just forgo the AutoPlay feature.
>
>
>DV
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- Thanks, Anchor Man & JB (dv: Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 9:29 pm)
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