[dba-Tech] Creating an auto start CD

Billy Pang tuxedoman888 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 16:20:12 CST 2007


i thought i tried it a long time ago using an html doc for autostart but i
guess i was mistaken.

anyways, i came another link that might be useful

http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/windows/howtocacdtwar.htm


On 2/28/07, Bryan Carbonnell <carbonnb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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