Autorun and cd burning

[Chris Midkiff]

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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