Auto-run on insertion of USB pen drive

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I've just been asked by my boss if the following is possible.

As a promotion, we want to give away a USB pen drive (aka "memory
stick"). These will have a small PowerPoint presentation
pre-installed.

Is it possible to run these automatically on insertion of the drive
into the USB port? My initial thought is "no", on account of security
implications.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Edward
 
[email protected] said:
As a promotion, we want to give away a USB pen drive (aka "memory
stick"). These will have a small PowerPoint presentation
pre-installed.

Is it possible to run these automatically on insertion of the drive
into the USB port?
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Yes, if there is an appropriate Autorun.inf file in its root directory.
However, the autorun feature for the corresponding virtual drive is
turned off by default in most cases and therefore, your idea will not
really work.
 
I've just been asked by my boss if the following is possible.

As a promotion, we want to give away a USB pen drive (aka "memory
stick"). These will have a small PowerPoint presentation
pre-installed.

Is it possible to run these automatically on insertion of the drive
into the USB port? My initial thought is "no", on account of security
implications.
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This would work with an autorun.inf file and an open= line.
But Windows XP does not support this for removable drive which
USB pen drive usually pretend to be.
Therefore U3 flash drives have a virtual CD-ROM on it because
Windows has the AutoRun feature activated by default for CD-ROM
drives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3

So, with an U3 flash drive it should be possible.
But I have doubts that the uses would like to have such
autostart stuff.

At least put the U3 uninstall tool on the drive too, so the
users can transform the drive into a normal one.
http://u3.com/uninstall


Uwe
 
This is a bad idea for a promotional item. If this is given to corporate employees, you would have a lot of IT Administrators very upset if this automatically runs an unknown program on their network.
 
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