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Turn of autorun!

There's an easy solution to this: turn off the bloody autorun "feature"! There is really no reason to have autorun. What was so difficult about opening My Computer, selecting the CD drive, then selecting the setup.exe file? Why did Microsoft have to make a way (turned on by default, no less) to automatically run a program upon insertion of a disc/device? Any idiot can tell you that automatically running unknown (and hence untrusted) code upon insertion of a disc/device is a stupid idea and is bound to cause problems.

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Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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