USB autostart program

[Guest]

I realize this topic has been discussed before but I hope what I am asking is
just a bit different. I have a program on a USB Flash Drive (it is a
password manager). The program is supposed to start automatically. Whenever
I put the drive in a USB port a window pops up that askes me what I want to
do, I can click on the program or No Action. I click on the program and the
window goes away and everything is fine. There are no choices available to
"always do this" nor am I able to pick that option via the drive properties.
I don't want that window to pop up but I do want the program to
autorun......how can I do this? Will using Tweak UI to prevent the drive
from autorun also prevent the program from autorunning? I just want to
eliminate the window, not prevent the program from running. As of now the
program will not autorun as long as the window is there. Thanks for any help
I can get. Paul

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I realize this topic has been discussed before but I hope what I am asking is
just a bit different. I have a program on a USB Flash Drive (it is a
password manager). The program is supposed to start automatically. Whenever
I put the drive in a USB port a window pops up that askes me what I want to
do, I can click on the program or No Action. I click on the program and the
window goes away and everything is fine. There are no choices available to
"always do this" nor am I able to pick that option via the drive properties.
I don't want that window to pop up but I do want the program to
autorun......how can I do this? Will using Tweak UI to prevent the drive
from autorun also prevent the program from autorunning? I just want to
eliminate the window, not prevent the program from running. As of now the
program will not autorun as long as the window is there. Thanks for any help
I can get. Paul

Under XP there is no build in mechanism for that. Deactivating
Windows AutoRun and let a 3rd party software do the job would
work. Of course this software must be installed on all computer
it shall work this way.
The upcoming V4 of my USB drive letter mananger can do this:
Download V4 beta:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/usbdlm4_beta.zip
USBDLM info:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

It's a small Win32 service for getting control over the drive
letter assingments of external drives. Now in can deal with
AutoRun events too.
For example, if your password manager is the passman.exe in
the root or the flash drive, configure in the USBDLM.INI
like this:

[OnArrival1]
FileExists=%drive%\passman.exe
open=%drive%\passman.exe

This way USBDLM checks if the passman.exe is present in the root
of the attached drive and if yes, then it executes it.

Or, let USBDLM check for the AutoRun.inf and let it execute
the open line. For 'removable drives' set

[Settings]
AutoRunInf=1


The Windows AutoRun can be easily deactivated by means of
my tool AutoRunSettings:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/autorunsettings.zip



Greetings from Germany

Uwe