{"id":218,"date":"2007-05-26T05:07:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T10:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/26\/efficiency-tip-33-autorun\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:14:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:14:22","slug":"efficiency-tip-33-autorun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/26\/efficiency-tip-33-autorun\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #33 &#8211; Autorun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computers are not good at predicting your intentions.\u00a0\u00a0Any time you insert a CD, DVD or USB drive, the operating system looks at the content on the\u00a0media\u00a0and gives a &#8220;best guess&#8221; as to what you want to do.\u00a0 Then\u00a0a window\u00a0pops\u00a0up listing\u00a0of things you probably don&#8217;t want to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/autoplaymenu.gif\" alt=\"autoplaymenu.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would say my computer selects what I want about one time out of a thousand.\u00a0 The computer takes my valuable time to give me a list of things I don&#8217;t want to do.\u00a0 If the computer were not trying to calculate my every move, I could be doing what I want to do.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I turn Autorun OFF.\u00a0 Here is a Microsoft link that tells you how to do this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/KB\/126025\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/KB\/126025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I use <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/downloads\/powertoys\/xppowertoys.mspx\">TweakUI<\/a> to turn off the Autorun &#8220;feature&#8221; of Windows.<\/p>\n<p>TSPY=3.98<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers are not good at predicting your intentions.\u00a0\u00a0Any time you insert a CD, DVD or USB drive, the operating system looks at the content on the\u00a0media\u00a0and gives a &#8220;best guess&#8221; as to what you want to do.\u00a0 Then\u00a0a window\u00a0pops\u00a0up listing\u00a0of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/26\/efficiency-tip-33-autorun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}