{"id":117,"date":"2006-08-30T10:16:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2006-08-30\/autorun-is-turned-off\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:16:29","slug":"autorun-is-turned-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2006-08-30\/autorun-is-turned-off\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;AutoRun is turned off&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having problems playing CDs on Windows: if I have Windows Media Player running and I switch (audio) CDs, WMP never recognizes that the CD has changed. I couldn&#8217;t figure out what was going on; I even upgraded WMP to the latest beta (which, it turns out, I intensely dislike), but that didn&#8217;t solve the problem. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So I decided to install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">iTunes<\/a>; I&#8217;ve been impressed with it on Mac. When running the installer, the following dialog popped up: &#8220;AutoRun is turned off. iTunes won&#8217;t be able to recognize when a CD is inserted or ejected until your computer&#8217;s AutoRun setting is turned on. Do you want iTunes to turn on AutoRun for you? [Yes] No&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whoa! One of the first things I do with every Windows install is disable autorun. This is because I sometimes insert CDs that I don&#8217;t trust, and occasionally USB sticks as well. I don&#8217;t <strong>want<\/strong> autorun on! But I do want my media player to be notified by the OS when I&#8217;ve inserted a new CD. Why would the AutoRun setting have any affect on this? I hate that. But at least I know what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having problems playing CDs on Windows: if I have Windows Media Player running and I switch (audio) CDs, WMP never recognizes that the CD has changed. I couldn&#8217;t figure out what was going on; I even upgraded WMP to the latest beta (which, it turns out, I intensely dislike), but that didn&#8217;t solve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,21,19,16],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","tag-autorun","tag-security","tag-stupidity","tag-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}