Topic awaiting preservation: Creating an autorun feature to a burned CD

All right, chalk this one up to something that I probably should be able to just google. (Whoops)

Does anybody know how one goes about getting something to autorun on a CD? For my college application I got the bright idea of scrounging up all the newspaper articles and videos that I have of myself and putting them on a CD to share with the college reps.

The problem is, how am I going to make them easily viewable. My initial idea is to set up a very simple website (is it still called a web site off the internet? anyway, a few linked pages via html) because I'm most familar with this medium. Do people think this is my best bet? Or are their programs that will arrange them in a better manner (easier).

If this is the best way of doing it, how can I make the homepage pop up upon loading the CD? I want to make this process as intuitive as possible, so that it's not hard to see who I am.

Did that make any sense? Has anybody gone through making something similar? Any suggestions and hints would be wonderful.


-Chesta

I think all you have to do is to create a file (in the same directory as the one you want auto-opened) called "autorun.ini".

Basicly, you just make a text file containing the following line, and renamne it to autorun.ini instead of .txt.

open=[the file you want to open]

as in

open=file.html

Im not 100% sure of this though. Check the autorun files on cd's using such that are working. You can usually find them on games and program cd's.
Hope that was to any help

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(Edited by mNinjae on 11-29-2005 23:07)

I use this and it seems to work flawlessly on any Windows system I've tried

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorun

Ah'right. I was *mostly* right anyway ;)
.inf is the file extension, and you need the [autorun] thingy at the top of the file.

btw, why would you need a generator for that?

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you're talking about Windows-users here, mNinjae

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reisio said:

you're talking about Windows-users here, mNinjae

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Oh. Ok. Sorry, Im not really that into this sort of stuff. >_<
So there are different file extensions/syntaxes on different OS's? How come autorun cd's work on more os's than one? O_o

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The other trick is that the autorun can't launch external programs (external to the CD). So you need to run an application from the CD which is why you need the extension such JKMabry suggestted



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Thanks all. I have yet to try this, but it looks like I'm quite positively on the right track now. You guys rock.

-Chesta