[pchelpers] Re: wtlib 2001
- From: Scott McNay <Wizard@xxxxxxxx>
- To: PcCowboy <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:11:18 -0500
Hi PcCowboy,
Monday, July 28, 2003, 3:15:41 PM, you wrote:
>>PC's solution was for auto-insert. Yours was for auto-run.
P> That's a new one for me. I have always thought that it meant that when you
P> insert a cd it would automatally run. When I turn auto insert off my cds
P> won't start by themselves.
Windows, including Win3.x, has always supported auto-insert, which is
basically just a media-change signal from the drive electronics. A
rudimentary auto-run feature was included that allowed Windows to play
CDs automatically. (I still prefer drives that have an extra button so
that I don't need to waste CD time on something that the CD drive is
perfectly capable of doing itself).
In Win95, auto-run was extended to look for an autorun.inf in the root
of the CD, and to execute it. This is what allows a setup program to
start running automatically from the CD.
In WinXP, it was extended again, so that you can specify what action
occurs when a specific type of CD is inserted.
Auto-insert notification and auto-run can be controlled independently,
but disabling auto-insert will likely make you think that auto-run is
disabled. However, if you double-click on the drive in My Computer,
you'll see that the action still occurs, unless you turn off auto-run.
--Scott.
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