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A CD or DVD may or may not have an "autorun" feature put on it by the maker. That means, if you put it in a drive, Windows can be made to perform some action straight away, without you having to tell it to. That might be, play a video or music CD or game, install software, etc.
For example, if you knew how, you could burn a Powerpoint presentation onto a disk, and when the user put it into the drive, Powerpoint (If it is present) fires up and starts to show the presentation.
Even if the disk wants to autorun, that will only happen if the drive itself has Autorun enabled in Windows settings. It is enabled by default on a new Windows install.
Some people think it is a handy feature, and some people don't like having windows pop up on their screen when they insert a disk, so it is possible to disable it, and also to tailor what action Autorun can take. A quick Google will tell you much more than I can type here in the time available.
It would be a pain in the @ss if Windows automatically tried to play a DVD when what you really wanted was for Ripit4me to get to work.
So what happens is that Ripit4me "swallows" or "traps" the message that Autorun tries to send to Windows. This stops the Autorun feature on that particular occasion. It needs to do this. Helpfully, it tells you that it has done it. You may or may not feel the need to find out how to disable autorun for that particular drive, or you may be quite happy to leave everything just as it is, if it's all working OK.
On m'a dit que je suis nul ŕ l'oral, que je n'peux pas mieux faire !
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 17. April 2007 @ 01:19
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