You can also use it to completely bomb the
“autorun / autoplay” from snooping your CD’s / DVD’s and external drives like USB chips and HD’s which can be extremely resource and time consuming if you plug in your 200+GB backup drive that contains all of your photos and mp3 etc. files

it’s under the section
“My Computer > Autoplay”
(it’s shown in the 8th screen shot or second from the last one)

the first time you access the setting it asks you what drives you want to turn on / off

I turned off drives A: – Z:
and I’ll never get that autoplay window again,
nor will an autorun.inf ever be run on my machine either.

autorun.inf is used to automatically run a program when you insert a CD/DVD, USB chip etc.
usually it’s for the purpose of helping you install your app. but it can also cause a lot of grief, like the “Sony Root Kit” CD’s did for so many people who just wanted to play the music, but had to say “Yes” to the install of the “copy prevention” Root Kit, before the cd was allowed to be played

the other issue with an autorun.inf is that it can be used to install / run other types of malware like spyware, adware, and even a virus,
or a specially formed command line that wipes off your HD before you even have a chance to blink most of the important stuff is gone and only XP and up will let you know sort of what’s going on as soon as “Windows File Protection” detects a change in a file that’s in the “Protected” list, but the average user wouldn’t know what was happening as their desktop and taskbar shortcuts disappear.

I won’t post the command(s) here since it could be used to create the “ultimate CD/DVD of death”.

I did however test one of the commands directly and in all but a few seconds the drive was wiped almost completely clean with the exception of a few “locked / in use” files.
and because the commands are “Legitimate” windows / DOS OS programs no AV program would even detect it as a “threat”

Cheers
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[sorry this is so long]

(Aseem, email me if you want me to tell you the details)