Jared has been running Windows Vista on his new computer for a while, and he keeps running into the same problem. When he wants to install a game from a CD, he double clicks on the icon to run the autoplay script, but because Windows is now scanning everything that passes through memory to make sure that you aren’t a pirate (see the Longest Suicide Note in History), this takes a few seconds. Jared gets bored and ends up either clicking on another window, or clicking on the CD icon again.
The reason this is a problem is that when the autoplay eventually runs, it kicks out the Vista “Are you sure you want to run the application that you just ran?” dialog box and blacks out the screen. Or it would, unless you happened to click on anything else, in which case the dialog disappears. You can’t alt-tab to it and you can’t see it on the screen. The only way to get back to it, as far as I can tell, is to Ctrl-Alt-Delete and choose the task manager at which point the dialog appears.
I don’t really want to teach Jared the three-finger salute because I don’t want him messing around killing processes, but I’m also tired of him coming to me screaming that he can’t install his game.
So is there a way to turn off these warnings, or an easy way to get back to them that I can teach Jared?