lol i'm sure everyone when they purchase a pc with windows is thinking, "gee, i'm sure glad they have that autorun feature!"
last i checked autorun is what makes ur pc so damn slow when booting up cuz i loads all this bloatware at startup- printer, sound, graphics, adobe stuff, microsoft stuff, blah blah blah blah. ... and THEN there are those viruses which take advantage of this. it should have been done earlier. all autorun generally does is make programs load faster when you start them for the first time.
and haruchai's comment about help desk? are y'all too stupid to understand what autorun accomplishes? hint.. if you're too lazy to open a program when it first boots, you can always put a link on your desktop so you don't have to search through the start menu! if you're too stupid... well i guess that doesn't make you much different than nearly every other american i've met.