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Make an Autorun CD-ROM
To make a CD-ROM run a program automatically you use a file named autorun.inf

You create the file autorun.inf in a text editor like Notepad. The file autorun.inf is than located on the CD's root directory. The first line of the file needs to say

[autorun]

add a second line with "open=" and the program desired.

For example an autorun.inf file like this

[autorun]open=explorer.exe /n,/e,.

would make the CD open up Windows Explorer.

Rather than launch an executable you can have Windows launch an html file, use the following for example

[autorun]open=start.exe yourfilename.html

With that you can have the CD launch a web page that then provides navigation to content on the CD.

Posted Wed, Jan 11 2006 13:41 by David
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