RE: Create Marketing CD to Autostart or Autorun

["Spreadbury, David" <david -dot- spreadbury -at- tellabs -dot- com>]

Additionally there are some freeware packages that, coupled with another
small executable (also freeware), allow you to launch just about any
file from an autorun. One such package that I use can be found at
http://users.spark.net.gr/~stamatb/freesoft/autoruncd.htm.


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] On Behalf Of Rick Stone
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:31 PM
To: Nelson, Julie ; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Create Marketing CD to Autostart or Autorun

Hi Julie

The trick to autorun is simply including a small ASCII text file named 
autorun.inf. Basically you place some commands inside the file that tell

Windows what to do with it.

Keep in mind that this is a Windows only feature (to the best of my 
knowledge). Also, starting HTML files is problematic. autorun.inf can
really 
only start executable files. So you may need a solution in conjunction
with 
your Dreamweaver pages. For this, you may want to visit fellow Microsoft

Help MVP David Liske's site:

http://frogleg.mvps.org/helptechnologies/projects/prjdocrn.html

Additionally, note that many IT departments now routinely disable the 
autorun feature because they deem it to be a security risk.

Hopefully this helps... Rick :)

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From: "Nelson, Julie " <JOHNST -at- acehardware -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:24 PM
Subject: Create Marketing CD to Autostart or Autorun


My team is developing a marketing CD promoting our retail computer
system.  We're going to develop the content in Dreamweaver.  We're in
the process of purchasing Dreamweaver, and I haven't had the opportunity
to use it yet (I plan on downloading the trial version).

Is it possible in Dreamweaver to move the files to CD & have the CD
autostart/autorun as soon as it's detected by the PC.  Is this something
Dreamweaver can do, or do I need another type of utility.

Thanks for your help.
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