Re: Is Autorun with USB device possible?

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From: damon (dponce67_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: 13 Apr 2004 07:15:51 -0700

> Only those drives that report media as removable can use AUTORUN.

This is going in circles. Are you saying that you personally have
seen a USB drive, controlled by usbstor.sys, that reported removable
media and exhibited AUTORUN functionality? This is what Eliyas was
saying will not work right?

-Damon

"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<ujN$VXQIEHA.2928@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> This is behavior of removable drives, pretty much all of USB flash drives
> cause Explorer window to pop up.
> It doesn't include executing AUTORUN.
>
> Only those drives that report media as removable can use AUTORUN.
>
> "Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
> news:uhSyK6MIEHA.3144@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > This particular MP3 player is just a flash drive - if attached to USB
> while
> > being powered off.
> > XP (but not w2k) immediately open a drive folder in Explorer on
> attach.
> >
> > --
> > Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> > StorageCraft Corporation
> > maxim@storagecraft.com
> > http://www.storagecraft.com
> >
> >
> > "damon" <dponce67@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:6f67a365.0404120718.60ba4700@posting.google.com...
> > > I don't believe that is the case, although I haven't tried this
> > > particular MP3 player. The behavior that MP3 players usually exhibit
> > > is to automatically play media files. While this is similar behavior,
> > > it is completely unique to media files. In other words, the
> > > executable file specified by an open or shellexec command in an
> > > autorun.inf file residing on the device will not cause that executable
> > > to execute, which is the behavior I seek.
> > >
> > > Again, if someone knows of an exception please let me know. But, I
> > > believe Eliyas was confirming that this just won't work on XP SP1 or
> > > earlier. Please correct me if I am wrong.
> > >
> > > -Damon
> > >
> > > "Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
> news:<#JaPO28HEHA.4052@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> > > > > not, do autorun just will not work. If you know of an example of a
> > > > > usbstor.sys controlled device that exhibits autorun behavior (as
> > > > > defined in my original post on the topic),
> > > >
> > > > Exatelecom i-Bead MP3 player.
> > > > Exhibits such a behaviour at least on XP.
> >
> >

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