Windows XP users who want the extra protection must select 'Custom' rather than 'Express' when Microsoft Update launches, then select optional software updates, and finally click on 'Update for Windows XP'. Applying the 'important, non-security update' automatically makes the necessary changes for Windows XP users and others, wrote Adam Shostack, a program manager working in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing section, on Tuesday. But people had to seek out the update and apply it, whereas in Windows 7 the new behaviour was the default.īy including the update in the latest round of patches send out via Windows Update on Tuesday, however, Microsoft made it marginally easier for users to find - and much easier for enterprises to install. Later in 2009, Microsoft made an update available that would make the same changes to autoplay for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

If a USB stick is inserted into a Windows 7 computer, the OS won't give an option to autorun its content. With the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft made a change in how autorun and a related feature, called autoplay, behaved compared to previous versions of Windows.

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