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<\/a><\/p>\nIn order to help prevent malware from spreading using the AutoRun mechanism, the Windows 7 engineering team made two important changes to the product:<\/p>\n
1.AutoPlay will no longer support the AutoRun functionality for non-optical removable media. In other words, AutoPlay will still work for CD\/DVDs but it will no longer work for USB drives.<\/p>\n
Before the change (left) After the change (right)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n 2.A dialog change was done to clarify that the program being executed is running from external media.<\/p>\n Before the change (left) After the change (right)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Some smart USB flash drives can pose as a CD\/DVD drive instead of standard ones. In this specific scenario, the operating system will treat the USB drive as if it is a CD\/DVD because the type of the device is determined at the hardware level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whenever an external device is plugged in Windows it showed an autorun options for choosing what happens when you insert it. It can be configured at Control Panel > autoplay In order to help prevent malware from spreading using the AutoRun mechanism, the Windows 7 engineering team made two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-n-trix","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n