Autorun a CD

[Guest]

I cannot make Our Family Heritage CD launch in AutoRun.
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsAutoRunWebPageCDs.asp

I have problem in creating Autorun CD and my web pages are Okay.

I have 2 folders:
[our family heritage] which contained index.htm, and other files
[ our_family_heritage] which contained a sub-folder called Pictures
[Pictures] which contained all pictures only

I did tried different Command for Autorun.inf (sample below) and all failed:

autorun.inf ----> (placed in root of CD)
[autorun] -----> (I used only one line of Command each time & all not working)
open=browsercall.exe iexplore&-kCDREPLACEindex.htm
open=browsercall.exe index.htm
Open-CDREPLACEindex.htm
open=browsercall.exe iexplore&-k CDREPLACEindex.htm
open=our family heritage\index.htm
open=our_family_heritage\index.htm
open=index.htm (I even tried putting INDEX.htm & other files out from folder and
placed all files in my root of CD)

Please help me -- I want to autorun my Index.htm file in a Windows-xp PC.

Autorun did worked for .exe extension files BUT failed also for PowerPoint .pps files:
[autorun]
open=Our_Vacation_Souvenirs.exe (Worked fine)

[autorun]
open=All_Parents'_Wishes.pps (Failed to work)



Thank you for your kind help,
-Rino

 

[David Webb]

An executable must be after the Open command.

The autorun.inf should contain something like this:

[autorun]
open=browsercall.exe \our family heritage\index.htm

This assume that browsercall.exe is located on the root of the CD and index.htm
is located in a folder called "our family heritage".

I'm not sure if the spaces in the folder name will cause a problem, so you may
want to either rename it without spaces, change it to something simple like just
"family", or use quotes around the full path name like this:

open=browsercall.exe "\our family heritage\index.htm"

If you don't have a copy of browsercall.exe, here's a freeware utility that will
launch any file with the app that it's associated with:

Download Shellout.exe from here:
http://www.mrichter.com/cdr/files/files.htm


| I cannot make Our Family Heritage CD launch in AutoRun.
| http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsAutoRunWebPageCDs.asp
|
| I have problem in creating Autorun CD and my web pages are Okay.
|
| I have 2 folders:
| [our family heritage] which contained index.htm, and other files
| [ our_family_heritage] which contained a sub-folder called Pictures
| [Pictures] which contained all pictures only
|
| I did tried different Command for Autorun.inf (sample below) and all failed:
|
| autorun.inf ----> (placed in root of CD)
| [autorun] -----> (I used only one line of Command each time & all not
working)
| open=browsercall.exe iexplore&-kCDREPLACEindex.htm
| open=browsercall.exe index.htm
| Open-CDREPLACEindex.htm
| open=browsercall.exe iexplore&-k CDREPLACEindex.htm
| open=our family heritage\index.htm
| open=our_family_heritage\index.htm
| open=index.htm (I even tried putting INDEX.htm & other files out from folder
and
| placed all files in my root of CD)
|
| Please help me -- I want to autorun my Index.htm file in a Windows-xp PC.
|
| Autorun did worked for .exe extension files BUT failed also for PowerPoint
..pps files:
| [autorun]
| open=Our_Vacation_Souvenirs.exe (Worked fine)
|
| [autorun]
| open=All_Parents'_Wishes.pps (Failed to work)
|
|
|
| Thank you for your kind help,
| -Rino
|
|

 

[Newbie Coder]

RINO

On another CD you may find a SHELLEX application. If so, you can use this to
launch your webpage. All that application does is run a fucntion called
ShellExecute with the arguments passed to it

So you would do something like this:

[Autorun]
open=shellex mypage.htm
icon=myiconfile.ico
....

I use the shellex little application for ease. If you're a C or C++
programmer then its around 3 lines of code, but the ShellEx has no licensing
on it whatsoever because its how most people would use it

For more information on creating autorun inf files, see here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818804

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...l_basics_extending/autorun/autoplay_works.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ll_basics_extending/autorun/autoplay_cmds.asp

Hope this helps,

 

[Ayush]

I cannot make Our Family Heritage CD launch in AutoRun.
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsAutoRunWebPageCDs.asp

You can use something like this-


[autorun]
shellexecute=htmlfilepath.htm


no need for any external application. Search microsoft.com for more info.


Good Luck, Ayush.

 

[Guest]

Thank you: David, Newbie Coder & Ayush, et al,
I appreciates all your suggestions and advices and I did tried them but not working for me. AutoRun HTML and .pps files are very
tricky.

I found another one which works for ALL FILES:
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/autorun/screenshots.shtml

That software allowed 5 AutoRun files to run or install consecutively and
truly it works on ALL FILES or any presentations.

Tips:
1. For HTML files -- Don't choose or tick Kiosk mode BUT you may tick for Maximized view -- people don't know how to exit in Kiosk
mode.

2. For Powerpoint .pps files -- Copy & Paste the complete ppviewer.exe & other accompanied files of ppviewer to your Base Folder --
the main folder which hold the others 4 more folders of your total of 5 presentations.

In the Command line type this: PPVIEWER.EXE\your_file_name.pps

3. For all .EXE files -- Do NOT tick Browsers Options (as EXE files don't use it)

I don't mind the JRL Ad's flash in the beginning -- I told them it's my company ;o)

All The Best,
-Rino

I cannot make Our Family Heritage CD launch in AutoRun.
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsAutoRunWebPageCDs.asp

You can use something like this-


[autorun]
shellexecute=htmlfilepath.htm


no need for any external application. Search microsoft.com for more info.


Good Luck, Ayush.