Autorun

[Nuclear Krusader]

How do I make an autorun.inf file that displays the contents of the CD whenever it is inserted in the drive?

I am typing the following in the Notepad:


[autorun]
OPEN=


But after that I am lost. I dunno what to put there or what command should I use to make the contents be displayed in a My PC-like window.



Can anyone help me?

TIA

[Iman74]

educated guess, U would say the executable would be on the root of the CD, and since CD-ROMs can be any letter, I would think you need to put the filename after the "=" without mentioning a drive letter. Did you try to search google for how to do this?

****Edit****
After replying I did a google search and found this from here. It mentions Win95, but it should work just the same.


AutoPlay works in Windows 95 by looking at the CD, or CD-ROM, that the user inserts. If it's an audio CD then it is played but if it is a CD-ROM that contains an AUTORUN.INF file in the root directory then the instructions in this are run.

Autorun - Limitations
AUTORUN.INF allows only programs, files that end in .exe or .com, to be run. AutoPlay was never intended to be used to automatically run other files, such as .htm, but StarterFile enables this limitation to be overcome.

AutoPlay was also only intended to work with CD-ROM but it can be made to work with other media such as floppy disks and Iomega zip drives and this is explained later.

Autorun - Example
A typical AUTORUN.INF file to install software would be located in the root directory of the CD and contain three lines in text format (ASCII) like this:
[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=setup.exe


Setup.exe would be expected to be found in the root directory of the CD.


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StarterFile - Example
StarterFile is written to the CD-ROM along with AUTORUN.INF and enables any file to be launched, including HTML web pages.

A typical AUTORUN.INF file that includes StarterFile to launch the file welcome.htm would contain two lines in text format (ASCII) like this:
[autorun]
open=starterfile.exe start.htm


Autorun.inf, starterfile.exe and welcome.htm should all be written to the root directory of the CD.

There have been plenty of other question on this subject in EE - perhaps a EE search would prove helpful

[pillainp]

Maybe this will help a bit. There is a free eBook here that you can download to learn how to autorun a CD:

http://www.ezau.com/ebooks/autorun.html

NPP

[andyms18a]

try this prog http://downloads.zdnet.co.uk/downloa...4-2138651.html

[Kubie]

NK,

Here is another little free proggy that may have something you need.

Carl

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptautorun.asp

[Nuclear Krusader]

Thank you all for the replies.

[Force Flow]

Here's a nice little proggie with an autorun exe menu: http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-...ml?tag=lst-0-1

[pillainp]

Hi again,

If you like you can also try out Hackman, a HEX editor, that comes with a lot of other tools sucha as a CD Autorun creator. A very useful package, as I have found on ocassion:

www.technologismiki.com/hackman/


NPP