[palmer]

Only took them 10 years to figure this out.

[Sgt_Schultze]

This is ridiculous. The Windows operating system is vital to business in America. It is beyond time for the federal government to do what is necessary to direct a Microsoft Corporation that will allow for full integration and security among every application and across platforms. The federal government needs to take control of this company so private interests don't continue to supplant America's best interests.

Mr. President, take control of Microsoft Corporation so real change and improvement can be encouraged.

;-)

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

there is other malicious software that abuses this feature

The grammar of that little assertion just makes me cringe.

Yikes!

[KarlInOhio]

Since non-writable media such as CD-ROMs generally aren't avenues for malicious software propagation (because they're not writable) we felt it made sense to keep the current behavior around AutoPlay for these devices and make this change only for generic mass storage class devices.

Bzzzzzt! Wrong answer, thanks for playing anyway.

From the rootkit fiasco on Sony music CDs I consider all media suspect and do not allow any autoplay. The "trouble" of hitting play on a CD I want to listen to (as opposed to just ripping) isn't worth the risk of it trying to install something.

Sometimes I want to put in a software disk and look at the documentation on it or try to find a driver. I don't want it starting the setup program to start installing something.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I’ve always found autorun to be more annoying than anything else.

[quesera]

Autorun is a PIA, can’t stand it. This feature was probably designed for people like my Harvard garduated Ex-Boss who after using a computer for almost 3 decades still cannot figure out how to copy a file from his hard drive, floppy disk, or CD-rom. Hard to believe he was President of our company, than again he fits the description of most windows users. Good thing he is a libtard and doesn’t read FR.

[OpeEdMunkey]

...wee announcing...

Wee are?

Surf the net on Linux. Plenty of vulnerabilities, no exploits.

[manic4organic]

For a non techie idiot like me, how do I fix it?