General Discussion - Creating an Autorun file for htm page on CD?

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Creating an Autorun file for htm page on CD?

Timber

2005-03-01, 12:54 pm

Recently at work, I was tasked to create several CD’s that would be distributed to high profile Executives within my organization. The CD’s are to contain materials & documents for distribution following a conference that is to take place next week. I was hoping to create an autorun file that would bring up an htm or html link/index type page to keep these Directors from wasting time searching for files on the CD. There will be approximately 70 files & folders located inside of a single, distinct folder.

I’ve created autorun files in the past, to execute MS Word, but it was specific to a single drive. Is there a way, or several ways that any of you can instruct me on how to write an autorun type file that would bring up the htm or html file named - lets say - “Link.htm” - that is located within a folder named – hypothetically speaking -“Conference” - on the CD. I would like this to work on any drive that these Executives place the CD into, no matter if it’s the “D”, “M”, “N” drive etc???

Any & all help would be greatly appreciated. Please be as specific as possible on any info that you can provide, since computers are not my strongest point in life.

Thanks in advance,
Timber

sbragib

2005-03-02, 7:33 am

Create a file called "autorun.inf" and put these two lines in and save it.

[autorun]
open = autorun index.html

and download the autorun.exe file from this site

http://www.dl-c.com/dl.html

copy both the autorun.inf and autorun.exe on the root folder of the cd and this should do the job.

with you all the best

Timber

2005-03-02, 10:29 am

Thanks for the website address – it is Greatly Appreciated!!!

Last night, I received a similar link from another Forum. I tried their download & instructions. With a little manipulation - it worked flawlessly. Thought I should share it here too.

http://www.ezau.com/latest/articles/autorun.shtml

It was also mentioned on the other Forum that for security purposes, autorun should be turned off on all your client and server machines. You can disable it by using AD GROUP policy. I am not a site administrator, so I can only guess the reasoning behind this is to stop people from running malicious programs that autoexec.

I’m hoping that my organization’s site administrators don’t see this thread, so I can make the suggestion to disable this autorun option a few weeks after our conference. Ha ha ha

Thanks again for the help,
Timber

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