User talk:Carveone

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Testing concluded. Imaged will be marked for speedy delete. Conclusions:

Original: png-24, 48,806 bytes.

Original: 180px thumbnail: 27,636 bytes. Clear and nicely reduced.

256 colour png-8, 11,281 bytes

256 colour png-8. 180 px thumbnail 23,096 bytes. Definately fuzzier but not bad

64 colour png-8, 8014 bytes.

64 colour png-8. 180px thumbnail 22,057 bytes. About the same I'd say.

Gif - atrocious. Not sure what's happening there. A 64 colour gif is just terrible.

PNG it is then. No point in colour reduction if using thumb.

Carveone (talk) 18:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: AutoRun change

The issue is that this form of linking violates the Manual of Style on Links and there's no real reason why an exception should be made for this link. "Singling out" Sony BMG (which you are doing anyway through the wikilink) is not unfair, because this incident was widely-publicized and serves as an excellent example of the protection being used. Thus, I don't see any reason to change it, and as it was previously written, it would have been rather misleading to online visitors. nneonneo ^talk 00:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AutoRun changes...

Saved here for reference until changes are made....

AutoRun and the companion feature AutoPlay are components of the Microsoft Windows operating system that dictate what actions the system takes when a drive is mounted.

AutoRun was introduced in Windows 95 to ease application installation for non-technical users and reduce the cost of software support calls. When an appropriately configured CD-ROM is inserted into a CD-ROM drive, Windows detects the arrival and checks the contents for a special file containing a set of instructions. For a commercial application, these instructions normally initiate installation of the software from the CD-ROM. To maximise the likelihood of installation success, AutoRun also acts when the drive is accessed ("double-clicked") in Windows Explorer (or "My Computer").

Until the introduction of Windows XP, the terms AutoRun and AutoPlay were used interchangeably, developers often using the former term and end users the latter. This tendency is reflected in Windows Policy settings named AutoPlay that change Windows Registry entries named AutoRun, and in the autorun.inf file which causes "AutoPlay" to be added to drives’ context menus. The terminology was of little importance until the arrival of Windows XP and its addition of a new feature to assist users in selecting appropriate actions when new media and devices were detected. This new feature was called AutoPlay and a differentiation between the two terms was created.[1]

AutoRun section

AutoRun, a feature of Windows Explorer (actually of the shell32 dll) introduced in Windows 95, enables media and devices to launch programs by use of commands listed in a file called autorun.inf, stored in the root directory of the medium.

Primarily used on installation CD-ROMs, the applications called are usually application installers. The autorun.inf file can also specify an icon which will represent the device visually in Explorer along with other advanced features.[1]

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. The flowchart illustration in the AutoPlay article shows how AutoRun is positioned as a layer between AutoPlay and the Shell Hardware Detection service and may help in understanding the terminology. However, to avoid confusion, this article uses the term AutoRun when referring to the initiating action.

Thanks for your comments, and for understanding some subtleties (specification -> mechanism). The proposed text above is an improvement and looks great. I have made some tiny changes that I think makes it flow better: do not hesitate to revert them if you don't like them.

Your changes to AutoRun and your new AutoPlay article are a very impressive compilation of information; although I think that (like my change) they get close to original research. The articles seem to be more useful then anything Microsoft has produced. JonH (talk) 20:05, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Autorun

Hi Carveone, the main reason for moving it down was the lack of inline citations, i think the first thing to aim for is wp:good article status, cheers Tom B (talk) 22:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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