I created a “multimedia” disc if you will on my computer…few websites and a few songs…the songs play through the website and also in a regular cd play. Is there anyway to make my home.htm file autostart when put into a computer? Id really like for the home page to come up instead of having to click through and open it manually. Thanks guys and gals.
You’ll want to create an autorun.inf file
This link describes how to do it:
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0499/win32/win320499top.htm?gssnb=1
There isn’t an easy way. The autorun.inf file wants to run a program, not start a file associated with a program. There are several free programs on the web which will call Windows’ ShellExecute function and do this for you. Do a Google search for “autorun browser” to find one.
Well my cd is finally complete. As the article provided by deathawk stated all i did was create a simple .js file and a .inf file and everything was up and running in no time. Thanks!
I just had to do this myself two days ago. Setting up a text file called “autorun.inf” will work, but only if what you are running is an .exe file. For .htm files, you need something to jumpstart the autorun, something a bit more complicated than a couple of lines in a batch file. After wading many google results for commercial products, I found a freeware solution by PJ Naughter called ShelExec. Link:
http://www.naughter.com/shelexec.html
This advice, of course, is windows-centric. YOSMV.
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