Nothing beats a USB port for convenience, whether you want to quickly transport a couple gigabytes of files for work, refresh the lineup on your MP3 player, or view the pictures from your recent trip ...

Many people are confused about Windows Autorun and Autoplay, including otherwise competent techies. You may be confused and not even realize it. I was. In the good old days, neither Autorun nor ...

As expected, Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday is big: 22 bugs fixed via 12 updates, including patches for three zero-day exploits. Microsoft also made a change to the Autorun services in XP and ...

Microsoft released two security advisories today. Security Advisory 968272, addresses an Excel exploit seen in small numbers in the wild and Security Advisory 967940 fixes an issue with Windows ...

Panda, an antivirus software company, has a new free Panda USB Vaccine available for download that can disable the Windows Autorun feature for an entire PC or a particular USB drive. The Autorun ...

Microsoft is pushing out a software update to some Windows users that fixes a bug in the Windows AutoRun software, used to automatically launch programs when DVDs or USB devices are introduced to the ...

I am setting up my new carputer, that will use RoadRunner as a shell, instead of explorer.exe. This way I will lose autoplay (I mean autoplay, not autorun), as it is part of explorer, but I'd still ...

What does it take to make a CD that will autorun an HTML file under both Windows and MacOS? For Windows, I've already made an autorun.inf with the following contents ...

A: AutoRun is a feature of Windows that allows processes to automatically launch when you insert a removable device such as a CD-ROM, USB flash drive, or attach a device like a digital camera.

Microsoft is pushing out a fix for a bug in its AutoRun feature that US-CERT has deemed a security issue Microsoft is pushing out a software update to some Windows users that fixes a bug in the ...