[dba-Tech] Creating an auto start CD

Bryan Carbonnell carbonnb at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 14:25:33 CST 2007


On 2/28/07, Billy Pang <tuxedoman888 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Actually not quite so simple.

The OPEN= line has to have an executable file as the first parameter after the =

It won't work with a PFD, or HTML or any non-execyutable file. You
will need to use another methood like a bat file or a 3rd party app.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=autorun+HTML

will give you some like to various 3rd party apps and how to do it
with a bat file.
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