autorun problem on a CD

[Guest]

I am running Win XP Home addition and Adobe 6.0 Standard. I want to make a CD-ROM with will autorun and boot to a PDF file. I have been trying to get my autorun.inf and autorun.exe file to run the PDF file and have not been successful. Listed below are the files I created...can you tell me where I've gone wrong??

autorun.inf file

[autorun]
open=autorun\autorun.exe
icon=autorun\mainmenu.pdf

autorun.exe file
[autorun]
open=autorun.exe

my pdf file is named mainmenu.pdf...all of the files are in the same directory, my objective is to have the CD-ROM automatically run the mainmenu.pdf file.

If the process of what I am trying to do is wrong, can you direct me by a step-by-step way to make this work??

Thank you for helping, if you could just tell me what is wrong and what exactly I need to do to make it run, I would be very grateful!

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

I am running Win XP Home addition and Adobe 6.0 Standard. I want to
make a CD-ROM with will autorun and boot to a PDF file. I have been
trying to get my autorun.inf and autorun.exe file to run the PDF file
and have not been successful. Listed below are the files I
created...can you tell me where I've gone wrong??

autorun.inf file

[autorun]
open=autorun\autorun.exe
icon=autorun\mainmenu.pdf

autorun.exe file
[autorun]
open=autorun.exe

my pdf file is named mainmenu.pdf...all of the files are in the same
directory, my objective is to have the CD-ROM automatically run the
mainmenu.pdf file.

If the process of what I am trying to do is wrong, can you direct me
by a step-by-step way to make this work??

Thank you for helping, if you could just tell me what is wrong and
what exactly I need to do to make it run, I would be very grateful!

Sivilla

You have posted several questions about autorun for CD's in the last week or
so, but you have never replied to any of the responses that you have
received?

Here is one reply from MVP Sharon F, posted a few days ago.

How do I make a CD run a PDF "main menu" file automatically? I want the
CD to begin running a PDF when it is inserted into the CD drive. When I
put the CD into the drive now, it just goes to the 'D' directory, it
doesn't run the file I want as the first thing one would see when
putting the CD into the drive. Thank you for your help!

When a CD is inserted, Windows looks for an autorun.inf file. If present,
it executes the commands in that file. You need to add an autorun.inf file
to the CD that contains the necessary command(s) to launch the PDF file.
Note that this will not work as expected if an application capable of
opening PDF files is not installed.

A free tool to create the file is Autorun.inf Editor from Karenware:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptautorun.asp"


--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
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[Guest]

I have sent in a couple requests for the same question, because the answers I received did not work or were too vague to answer my question. I reposted the question in hopes that maybe the first time I asked the question it wasn't clear what I was trying to do, I was trying to clarify my problem. I was not aware that you could not ask the question over again if you still were having problems. I am sorry if I have caused any undue problems. But as of this time, I am still having a quandry as to what I need to do, I've exhausted all my ideas and nothing seems to work.
--
Sivilla

I am running Win XP Home addition and Adobe 6.0 Standard. I want to
make a CD-ROM with will autorun and boot to a PDF file. I have been
trying to get my autorun.inf and autorun.exe file to run the PDF file
and have not been successful. Listed below are the files I
created...can you tell me where I've gone wrong??

autorun.inf file

[autorun]
open=autorun\autorun.exe
icon=autorun\mainmenu.pdf

autorun.exe file
[autorun]
open=autorun.exe

my pdf file is named mainmenu.pdf...all of the files are in the same
directory, my objective is to have the CD-ROM automatically run the
mainmenu.pdf file.

If the process of what I am trying to do is wrong, can you direct me
by a step-by-step way to make this work??

Thank you for helping, if you could just tell me what is wrong and
what exactly I need to do to make it run, I would be very grateful!

Sivilla

You have posted several questions about autorun for CD's in the last week or
so, but you have never replied to any of the responses that you have
received?

Here is one reply from MVP Sharon F, posted a few days ago.

How do I make a CD run a PDF "main menu" file automatically? I want the
CD to begin running a PDF when it is inserted into the CD drive. When I
put the CD into the drive now, it just goes to the 'D' directory, it
doesn't run the file I want as the first thing one would see when
putting the CD into the drive. Thank you for your help!

When a CD is inserted, Windows looks for an autorun.inf file. If present,
it executes the commands in that file. You need to add an autorun.inf file
to the CD that contains the necessary command(s) to launch the PDF file.
Note that this will not work as expected if an application capable of
opening PDF files is not installed.

A free tool to create the file is Autorun.inf Editor from Karenware:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptautorun.asp"


--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://www.mvps.org

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Sivilla,

Try shellexecute instead of using open / autorun.exe

[autorun]
shellexecute=filename.pdf

Assumes anti.pdf resides in the drive's root. Else, include the full path for this file. For more help, see section "Autorun.inf Commands" in the MSDN Library.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/gpref.asp

I have sent in a couple requests for the same question, because the answers I received did not work or were too vague to answer my question. I reposted the question in hopes that maybe the first time I asked the question it wasn't clear what I was trying to do, I was trying to clarify my problem. I was not aware that you could not ask the question over again if you still were having problems. I am sorry if I have caused any undue problems. But as of this time, I am still having a quandry as to what I need to do, I've exhausted all my ideas and nothing seems to work.
--
Sivilla

I am running Win XP Home addition and Adobe 6.0 Standard. I want to
make a CD-ROM with will autorun and boot to a PDF file. I have been
trying to get my autorun.inf and autorun.exe file to run the PDF file
and have not been successful. Listed below are the files I
created...can you tell me where I've gone wrong??

autorun.inf file

[autorun]
open=autorun\autorun.exe
icon=autorun\mainmenu.pdf

autorun.exe file
[autorun]
open=autorun.exe

my pdf file is named mainmenu.pdf...all of the files are in the same
directory, my objective is to have the CD-ROM automatically run the
mainmenu.pdf file.

If the process of what I am trying to do is wrong, can you direct me
by a step-by-step way to make this work??

Thank you for helping, if you could just tell me what is wrong and
what exactly I need to do to make it run, I would be very grateful!

Sivilla

You have posted several questions about autorun for CD's in the last week or
so, but you have never replied to any of the responses that you have
received?

Here is one reply from MVP Sharon F, posted a few days ago.

How do I make a CD run a PDF "main menu" file automatically? I want the
CD to begin running a PDF when it is inserted into the CD drive. When I
put the CD into the drive now, it just goes to the 'D' directory, it
doesn't run the file I want as the first thing one would see when
putting the CD into the drive. Thank you for your help!

When a CD is inserted, Windows looks for an autorun.inf file. If present,
it executes the commands in that file. You need to add an autorun.inf file
to the CD that contains the necessary command(s) to launch the PDF file.
Note that this will not work as expected if an application capable of
opening PDF files is not installed.

A free tool to create the file is Autorun.inf Editor from Karenware:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptautorun.asp"


--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://www.mvps.org

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

My posting here:
http://oldlook.experts-exchange.com:8080/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20973653.html

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/gpref.asp

I have sent in a couple requests for the same question, because the answers I received did not work or were too vague to answer my question. I reposted the question in hopes that maybe the first time I asked the question it wasn't clear what I was trying to do, I was trying to clarify my problem. I was not aware that you could not ask the question over again if you still were having problems. I am sorry if I have caused any undue problems. But as of this time, I am still having a quandry as to what I need to do, I've exhausted all my ideas and nothing seems to work.
--
Sivilla

I am running Win XP Home addition and Adobe 6.0 Standard. I want to
make a CD-ROM with will autorun and boot to a PDF file. I have been
trying to get my autorun.inf and autorun.exe file to run the PDF file
and have not been successful. Listed below are the files I
created...can you tell me where I've gone wrong??

autorun.inf file

[autorun]
open=autorun\autorun.exe
icon=autorun\mainmenu.pdf

autorun.exe file
[autorun]
open=autorun.exe

my pdf file is named mainmenu.pdf...all of the files are in the same
directory, my objective is to have the CD-ROM automatically run the
mainmenu.pdf file.

If the process of what I am trying to do is wrong, can you direct me
by a step-by-step way to make this work??

Thank you for helping, if you could just tell me what is wrong and
what exactly I need to do to make it run, I would be very grateful!

Sivilla

You have posted several questions about autorun for CD's in the last week or
so, but you have never replied to any of the responses that you have
received?

Here is one reply from MVP Sharon F, posted a few days ago.

How do I make a CD run a PDF "main menu" file automatically? I want the
CD to begin running a PDF when it is inserted into the CD drive. When I
put the CD into the drive now, it just goes to the 'D' directory, it
doesn't run the file I want as the first thing one would see when
putting the CD into the drive. Thank you for your help!

When a CD is inserted, Windows looks for an autorun.inf file. If present,
it executes the commands in that file. You need to add an autorun.inf file
to the CD that contains the necessary command(s) to launch the PDF file.
Note that this will not work as expected if an application capable of
opening PDF files is not installed.

A free tool to create the file is Autorun.inf Editor from Karenware:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptautorun.asp"


--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://www.mvps.org

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

I have sent in a couple requests for the same question, because the
answers I received did not work or were too vague to answer my
question. I reposted the question in hopes that maybe the first time
I asked the question it wasn't clear what I was trying to do, I was
trying to clarify my problem. I was not aware that you could not ask
the question over again if you still were having problems. I am
sorry if I have caused any undue problems. But as of this time, I am
still having a quandry as to what I need to do, I've exhausted all my
ideas and nothing seems to work.

Sivilla

I did not mean to imply that you could not ask the same question again, but
if you post a message and receive a reply with a fix that does not work,
then you should reply and say that it did not work. This will let us know
and we can try something else. You will eventually get a fix.

If you simply repeat the same question, in another thread, then nobody knows
what has been tried before to fix the problem and you start from the
beginning again.

--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://www.mvps.org

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your response. I have changed my autorun.inf file to read
[autorun]
shellexecute=filename.pdf

I changed the autorun.exe file to read
[autorun]
open=autorun.exe

I get the following error message:

16 Bit MS-DOS subsystem
The NTVDM CPU has encoutnered an illegal instruction
CS4100 1P:001b 0p:8e 8f 28 1f 96

It still does not work. I tried to find the file anti.pdf on both my hard drive and on my copy of Adobe Acrobat, but did not find it. I have contaced Adobe to see if they can tell me how to get that file.

I have also checked into one of the software programs to see if it would be better to get that than try to fix my problem manually. I need to know if the software will open PDF files, in which I have contacted them to verify.

Thank you for your help, if you have any other suggestions, they will be very welcome!

--
Sivilla

My posting here:
http://oldlook.experts-exchange.com:8080/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20973653.html

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/gpref.asp

I have sent in a couple requests for the same question, because the answers I received did not work or were too vague to answer my question. I reposted the question in hopes that maybe the first time I asked the question it wasn't clear what I was trying to do, I was trying to clarify my problem. I was not aware that you could not ask the question over again if you still were having problems. I am sorry if I have caused any undue problems. But as of this time, I am still having a quandry as to what I need to do, I've exhausted all my ideas and nothing seems to work.
--
Sivilla

I am running Win XP Home addition and Adobe 6.0 Standard. I want to
make a CD-ROM with will autorun and boot to a PDF file. I have been
trying to get my autorun.inf and autorun.exe file to run the PDF file
and have not been successful. Listed below are the files I
created...can you tell me where I've gone wrong??

autorun.inf file

[autorun]
open=autorun\autorun.exe
icon=autorun\mainmenu.pdf

autorun.exe file
[autorun]
open=autorun.exe

my pdf file is named mainmenu.pdf...all of the files are in the same
directory, my objective is to have the CD-ROM automatically run the
mainmenu.pdf file.

If the process of what I am trying to do is wrong, can you direct me
by a step-by-step way to make this work??

Thank you for helping, if you could just tell me what is wrong and
what exactly I need to do to make it run, I would be very grateful!

Sivilla

You have posted several questions about autorun for CD's in the last week or
so, but you have never replied to any of the responses that you have
received?

Here is one reply from MVP Sharon F, posted a few days ago.

How do I make a CD run a PDF "main menu" file automatically? I want the
CD to begin running a PDF when it is inserted into the CD drive. When I
put the CD into the drive now, it just goes to the 'D' directory, it
doesn't run the file I want as the first thing one would see when
putting the CD into the drive. Thank you for your help!

When a CD is inserted, Windows looks for an autorun.inf file. If present,
it executes the commands in that file. You need to add an autorun.inf file
to the CD that contains the necessary command(s) to launch the PDF file.
Note that this will not work as expected if an application capable of
opening PDF files is not installed.

A free tool to create the file is Autorun.inf Editor from Karenware:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptautorun.asp"


--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://www.mvps.org

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Sivilla,

You don't understand the point. Try using 'shellexecute' method only and no need for autorun.exe (and I don't know what your autorun.exe does)

* Shellexecute requires atleast Windows ME. And, it calls the file-association directly.

Revised Note:
--------------

[autorun]
shellexecute=filename.pdf

Assumes *filename.pdf* resides in the drive's root. Else, include the full path for this file. For more help, see section "Autorun.inf Commands" in the MSDN Library.



--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/gpref.asp

Thank you for your response. I have changed my autorun.inf file to read
[autorun]
shellexecute=filename.pdf

I changed the autorun.exe file to read
[autorun]
open=autorun.exe

I get the following error message:

16 Bit MS-DOS subsystem
The NTVDM CPU has encoutnered an illegal instruction
CS4100 1P:001b 0p:8e 8f 28 1f 96

It still does not work. I tried to find the file anti.pdf on both my hard drive and on my copy of Adobe Acrobat, but did not find it. I have contaced Adobe to see if they can tell me how to get that file.

I have also checked into one of the software programs to see if it would be better to get that than try to fix my problem manually. I need to know if the software will open PDF files, in which I have contacted them to verify.

Thank you for your help, if you have any other suggestions, they will be very welcome!

--
Sivilla

My posting here:
http://oldlook.experts-exchange.com:8080/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20973653.html

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/gpref.asp

I have sent in a couple requests for the same question, because the answers I received did not work or were too vague to answer my question. I reposted the question in hopes that maybe the first time I asked the question it wasn't clear what I was trying to do, I was trying to clarify my problem. I was not aware that you could not ask the question over again if you still were having problems. I am sorry if I have caused any undue problems. But as of this time, I am still having a quandry as to what I need to do, I've exhausted all my ideas and nothing seems to work.
--
Sivilla

I am running Win XP Home addition and Adobe 6.0 Standard. I want to
make a CD-ROM with will autorun and boot to a PDF file. I have been
trying to get my autorun.inf and autorun.exe file to run the PDF file
and have not been successful. Listed below are the files I
created...can you tell me where I've gone wrong??

autorun.inf file

[autorun]
open=autorun\autorun.exe
icon=autorun\mainmenu.pdf

autorun.exe file
[autorun]
open=autorun.exe

my pdf file is named mainmenu.pdf...all of the files are in the same
directory, my objective is to have the CD-ROM automatically run the
mainmenu.pdf file.

If the process of what I am trying to do is wrong, can you direct me
by a step-by-step way to make this work??

Thank you for helping, if you could just tell me what is wrong and
what exactly I need to do to make it run, I would be very grateful!

Sivilla

You have posted several questions about autorun for CD's in the last week or
so, but you have never replied to any of the responses that you have
received?

Here is one reply from MVP Sharon F, posted a few days ago.

How do I make a CD run a PDF "main menu" file automatically? I want the
CD to begin running a PDF when it is inserted into the CD drive. When I
put the CD into the drive now, it just goes to the 'D' directory, it
doesn't run the file I want as the first thing one would see when
putting the CD into the drive. Thank you for your help!

When a CD is inserted, Windows looks for an autorun.inf file. If present,
it executes the commands in that file. You need to add an autorun.inf file
to the CD that contains the necessary command(s) to launch the PDF file.
Note that this will not work as expected if an application capable of
opening PDF files is not installed.

A free tool to create the file is Autorun.inf Editor from Karenware:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptautorun.asp"


--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://www.mvps.org