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The terms AutoRun and AutoPlay tend to be interchangeably used when referring to the initiating action, the action that detects and starts reading from discovered volumes. AutoRun is positioned as a layer between AutoPlay and the Shell Hardware Detection service which may help in understanding the terminology.
After AutoRun completes, AutoPlay initiates by doing an examination of the volume for content. This is called content sniffing. AutoPlay decides whether the volume is an Audio CD, movie DVD, a blank recordable medium (a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R etc.) or a generic volume which contains files.
The "AutoRun task" is the application specified by the open or shellexecute keys. If an AutoRun task is specified it is executed immediately without user interaction. Windows XP, prior to Service Pack 2; Introduction of AutoPlay. Drives of type DRIVE_CDROM invoke AutoPlay if no autorun.inf file is found.
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Auto-Play is a feature used by some websites containing at least one embedded video or audio element wherein the video or audio element starts playing, automatically, without explicit user choice, after some triggering event such as page load or navigating to a particular region of the webpage.
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Since (at least) Microsoft Windows XP SP2 autorun.inf files present in the new drive letter are ignored; thus, AutoRun/AutoPlay does not work on drive letters created in this way. In addition, assigning a custom icon or label to the drive letter created this way via autorun.inf does not work.
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