I didn't know Autorun was removed (sort of) in Windows 7. I guess that's one less thing some of us can brag about. It's hard to understand how Autorun survive

I didn't know Autorun was removed (sort of) in Windows 7. I guess that's one less thing some of us can brag about. It's hard to understand how Autorun survived Microsoft's big security push in the mid-2000s. I would have guessed it would be the first thing to go. But they can't remove Autorun without severely breaking backward compatibility; you can't suddenly force users to locate SETUP.EXE in a sea of weird setup files in order to install Office. That's why it's still enabled for CDs and DVDs. As a result, Microsoft and its users continue to pay a price for what turned out to be a really terrible design decision.