[dba-Tech] Creating an auto start CD

Thanks
Jim Hale

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From: Billy Pang [mailto:tuxedoman888 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:07 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Creating an auto start CD

oops.. instead of OPEN=myprogram.EXE , use OPEN=myfile.pdf for pdf file.

if it is a simple menu you want, perhaps the menu can be an html form with
links to contents of the cd.
in this case, use OPEN=mymenu.html in the autorun.inf file.


On 2/28/07, Billy Pang <tuxedoman888 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> craete a file called "Autorun.INF" in root of cd.
> in it, put in the following contents:
>
> [autorun]
> OPEN=myprogram.EXE
> ICON=myicon.ICO
>
> however, i'm not sure if it works all the time as autorun can disabled...
>
> http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-018
>
>
>  On 2/28/07, Hale, Jim <Jim.Hale at fleetpride.com> wrote:
> >
> > I want to place a catalog (it is in HTML  or can be a PDF file) on a CD
> > and
> > auto open it when the CD is inserted. How is the best way to do this?
> > What
> > if I want a simple menu to pop up offering a catalog to open or an order
> > form? Does anyone know of as simple program that can do this? TIA
> >
> > Jim Hale
> >
> >
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