Autorun and cd burning
Chris Midkiff
chris at datacaptech.com
Thu Jan 24 16:09:46 CST 2002
The Autorun.inf file is just a text file. You can create it with any text editor, or you could do
it right and use vi ;-) You can open the autorun.inf file from any CD that uses this 'Feature' for
an example.
In order to start a program, all you really need is the following 2 lines:
[autorun]
OPEN=program.exe
If you want to get fancy, you can include:
ICON=program.exe_or_icon.ico
If you want to create an html document with links to all of the applications on the CD you should
look into a free (as in beer) tool called Winopen (available at
http://www.duckware.com/winopen.html) that handles windows asociate program opening.
Also, M$ has a listing of all of the autorun.inf commands and their parameters at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/Shell/Shell_basics
/Autoplay_cmds.asp
It's about as usefull as most other M$ documentation...
Hope this helps,
Chris Midkiff
----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Thurmond
To: kclug at kclug.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:56 PM
Subject: Autorun and cd burning
Hey everybody. Listen I am burning a CD to distribute for an event I am hosting and I know how to
create an autorun file for windows autoruns (I know Windows, boo boo. I would go the linux angle
except everyone I am producing the disk for runs windows).
But I want to make an executable that will point them to several programs on the cd so they can
either install the programs, read a readme file, or see a playlist of music. I want it to be a kind
of menu the pops-up when the cd is inserted. Like when you insert an M$ Office cd and it gives you
some options on what to install or actually more like when installing a logitech product an the
screen is just a bunch of links to either read a text file or run an install program.
Does anyone know how to make one, or even what a program to help produce this would be called? I
have seen dinky custom ones before and it doesn't have to be awesome, just to be a utility to make
the CDs features obvious to stupid users.
Well Thanks,
Patrick
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