How
to make a Windows AutoPlay CD.
Create an autorun.inf by clicking
Start, Run, type notepad
and press enter.
In notepad type:
[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon= icon.ico
In the above paragraph where open is
located if your CD has an executable which you would like to run
automatically you would need to type it into this line. Next is the
icon statement, if you would like your own icon for the CD place the
name of the icon file into this path.
Once the above three lines have been
typed save the file as autorun.inf
and exit.
Note: The autorun.inf file has limited abilities, such
as the inability of executing non-executable files. Often many
users will want to create an autorun.inf file that executes an HTML
file. However, entering something such as
"open=index.html" causes an error. If you wish to
create a CD that executes a HTML file, a batch file, open a mail
file, or almost any other type of file we suggest using AutorunPro
from GUI Computing Pty Ltd.
This file can be downloaded from our download
utilities section.
