Re: autorun problem on a CD

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From: Ramesh [MVP] (ramesh_at_nojunkmails.com@mvps.org)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:13:31 +0530

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

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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
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Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table: 
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/gpref.asp
"Sivilla" <Sivilla@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FBBE8795-F940-4935-B4C6-BC2B4DF49E9D@microsoft.com...
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
"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
> Sivilla wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> "On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:20:39 -0700, Sivilla wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
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> 
> 
>

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