Major problem with autorun in Windows XP.

[George Hester]

Now of course many do not like it when I point out the obvious and guess
what I don't either. I'd much prefer Windows XP to work. Wouldn't that be
something?

The autorun feature of Windows has undergone the engineering boondoggle. It
is not hard to understand. You put a CD-ROM in the CD Player and that
CD-ROM has an autorun.inf and NORMALLY the CD does what it is supposed to do
as directed to do it from the autorun.inf. And then Microsoft has the
bright idea of putting a CD Burner in Windows XP. Result an engineering
boondogle. Namely autorun does not work. So of course to fix the mess
Microsoft convinces many oh get this fix or get that fix and maybe a fix or
two down the road. Hell we got fixes coming out of our ears for this issue.
In fact it's all fixed in the Next version of Windows get that!!!

Well you know what? It is NOT fixed and never will be fixed. In fact
things cannot be fixed when it is denied that something is broke. How can
we fix something that we don't know is broke? Well one way to find out is
to read the posts in thsi Newsgroup about the autorun boondoggle. Or of
course listen to the experts that think their is no issue. We know which
side Microsoft has come down on don't we?

 

[George Hester]

Here is more ion this issue:

"In Windows XP, files that have an .inf extension are considered to be setup
information files"

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314855

"CD-ROM May Not Run Automatically in Windows XP"

So what happens when we are signed in with Administrator priviledges AND the
autorun.inf is NOT a setup information file? Hmm?

Ans: Nothing. Similarly this will also happen for Audio CDs. In fact it
is a caching problem. As a matter of fact someone above pointed out another
caching issue in Windows XP. Windows XP is caching challenged and thus a
poor operating system.

 

[gnaynit]

Good for you George! Not enough people make their displeasure of crappy M$
products known. These are public newsgroups and more people ahould speak
out here! More people like you, average consumers who want to buy and enjoy
the use of quality products, get screwed everyday by big corporations like
M$!

MonopolySoft
MacStealer

Need I say more?!?

 

[Plato]

Good for you George! Not enough people make their displeasure of crappy M$
products known. These are public newsgroups and more people ahould speak

People who use M$ to comment are most often ignored.

 

[gnaynit]

Except by you, right?

 

[Neal]

Now of course many do not like it when I point out the obvious and guess
what I don't either. I'd much prefer Windows XP to work. Wouldn't that be
something?

The autorun feature of Windows has undergone the engineering boondoggle. It
is not hard to understand. You put a CD-ROM in the CD Player and that
CD-ROM has an autorun.inf and NORMALLY the CD does what it is supposed to do
as directed to do it from the autorun.inf. And then Microsoft has the
bright idea of putting a CD Burner in Windows XP. Result an engineering
boondogle. Namely autorun does not work. So of course to fix the mess
Microsoft convinces many oh get this fix or get that fix and maybe a fix or
two down the road. Hell we got fixes coming out of our ears for this issue.
In fact it's all fixed in the Next version of Windows get that!!!

Well you know what? It is NOT fixed and never will be fixed. In fact
things cannot be fixed when it is denied that something is broke. How can
we fix something that we don't know is broke? Well one way to find out is
to read the posts in thsi Newsgroup about the autorun boondoggle. Or of
course listen to the experts that think their is no issue. We know which
side Microsoft has come down on don't we?

I have never encountered this problem on any of my systems which have all the
current updates. Was this caused by one of the updates you installed?

Neal

 

[Peter Foldes]

He is trolling\fishing to show himself up as "MS is wrong". That is all he does in this and other groups. Do a Find for his posts in this newsgroup and you will see this

 

[Richard Urban]

I don't find any of his posts. I have him blocked now! (-:

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

He is trolling\fishing to show himself up as "MS is wrong". That is all he
does in this and other groups. Do a Find for his posts in this newsgroup and
you will see this

 

[George Hester]

Good for you Richard a man after my own heart

 

[George Hester]

Neal I understand that you do not experience this issue but I can show you
it does exist on your systems. I promise you I can do that.