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Old 05-08-2009   #1 (permalink)
test


 
 

Autorun.inf

I was told that a CD I distrubute as part of my job does not autorun
on Vista. Does anyone know if Vista executes autorun in the same
manner as xp.

This is the aurorun file.

[AUTORUN]
OPEN=autorun.exe start.html

--------

I have written a program called start.exe which launches an an html
file called start.html

Does the OPEN command work in Vista?

Thanks!

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Old 05-08-2009   #2 (permalink)
Dave-UK


 
 

Re: Autorun.inf


<test@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:r1u805l17uum4fg82v3j2qml4ddhqbodia@xxxxxx
Quote:

> I was told that a CD I distrubute as part of my job does not autorun
> on Vista. Does anyone know if Vista executes autorun in the same
> manner as xp.
>
> This is the aurorun file.
>
> [AUTORUN]
> OPEN=autorun.exe start.html
>
> --------
>
> I have written a program called start.exe which launches an an html
> file called start.html
>
> Does the OPEN command work in Vista?
>
> Thanks!
Vista's autorun is a bit different, it depends on how the machine has been setup.
More info at the bottom of the page:

http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm




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Old 05-08-2009   #3 (permalink)
Joe Morris


 
 

Re: Autorun.inf


<test@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:r1u805l17uum4fg82v3j2qml4ddhqbodia@xxxxxx
Quote:

>I was told that a CD I distrubute as part of my job does not autorun
> on Vista. Does anyone know if Vista executes autorun in the same
> manner as xp.
>
> This is the aurorun file.
>
> [AUTORUN]
> OPEN=autorun.exe start.html
>
> --------
>
> I have written a program called start.exe which launches an an html
> file called start.html
>
> Does the OPEN command work in Vista?

OK; so you wrote a program named "start.exe" but why do you expect Windows
to execute it? Your AUTORUN.INF file tells the system to execute a program
named "autorun.exe" with a parameter of "start.html"; there's no mention of
"start.exe" .

If you (or whoever isn't seeing the automatic start) are in a corporate
environment, check the policies on the computer. The autorun feature is
considered (correctly) to be a significant security exposure, and "best
practices" installations disable it.

Joe Morris


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Old 05-09-2009   #4 (permalink)
JohnJ


 
 

Re: Autorun.inf


<test@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:r1u805l17uum4fg82v3j2qml4ddhqbodia@xxxxxx
Quote:

>I was told that a CD I distrubute as part of my job does not autorun
> on Vista. Does anyone know if Vista executes autorun in the same
> manner as xp.
>
> This is the aurorun file.
>
> [AUTORUN]
> OPEN=autorun.exe start.html
>
> --------
>
> I have written a program called start.exe which launches an an html
> file called start.html
>
> Does the OPEN command work in Vista?
>
> Thanks!
FYI, in addition to other replies, A longstanding program, shellex.exe,
works perfectly to run a number of startup applications.

http://www.whirlywiryweb.com/q%2Fshellexe.asp

John

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