Getting CDs to auto run

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We are creating websites at our school and burning them onto CDs to take home. How do we get the CD to automatically run our website when it is put into a home computer.
 
when you burn your disk make sure the index page is "on the disk" rather
than in a folder on the disk. the way I do it is make my web as I normally
would in FrontPage, then make another folder called /assets within the web
and move everything but the index page into that. then I add a file called
autorun.inf to the outer folder (with the index page).
you just make the autorun with notepad. put the following on it:

[autorun]
shellexecute=index.htm

unless your index page is named something else.
Steve Easton gave a link to a utility that's supposed to work better but I
lost the link. maybe he'll re-post. ;-)

final caveat:
burn the "contents" of the web to the disk, not the "web" itself.
HTH

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Gary said:
We are creating websites at our school and burning them onto CDs to take
home. How do we get the CD to automatically run our website when it is put
into a home computer.
 
For creating the CD see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q310511

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| when you burn your disk make sure the index page is "on the disk" rather
| than in a folder on the disk. the way I do it is make my web as I normally
| would in FrontPage, then make another folder called /assets within the web
| and move everything but the index page into that. then I add a file called
| autorun.inf to the outer folder (with the index page).
| you just make the autorun with notepad. put the following on it:
|
| [autorun]
| shellexecute=index.htm
|
| unless your index page is named something else.
| Steve Easton gave a link to a utility that's supposed to work better but I
| lost the link. maybe he'll re-post. ;-)
|
| final caveat:
| burn the "contents" of the web to the disk, not the "web" itself.
| HTH
|
| --
| The email address on this posting is a "black hole". I got tired of all the
| spam.
| Please feel free to contact me here:
| http://nedp.net/contact/
| --
|
|
| | > We are creating websites at our school and burning them onto CDs to take
| home. How do we get the CD to automatically run our website when it is put
| into a home computer.
|
|
 

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