Comment by hulitu
5 days ago
> Autorun has been disabled since the release of Windows 7 in 2009.
No. Microsoft just said it will disable it. On some systems, i've seen it disabled (i don't know if by default or by AD policy) but, on the majority of Windows 10, it was not disabled.
By `autorun` we're talking about the notorious pre-2007 function of automatically running an exe — the `open` key in the `autorun.inf` file, specifically. It's ignored in all non-EOL Windows versions. It technically true that features called Autorun and Autoplay are still `enabled`, they just don't do what they did pre-2007. The `icon` key still works, but not `open`. You can re-enable `open` with registry edits, but it's not easy.