How to Create Auto Run / Auto Play CD/DVD
How to Create Auto Run / Auto Play CD/DVD :
The application CD’s or games cd’s that you purchase and insert into your cd/dvd drive they will run/play automatically, and your burned CD’s can not do the same….. why?
You can bring into run a setup program, or there is an HTML page that links to the CD contents. You can simply open the Notepad to create a three line text file based on the lines below, and name it Autorun.inf. I will explain to you how to easily create Autorun CD
First you can create your own autorun.inf file
Open Notpad then type the following three lines are an example of a simple Autorun.inf file.
[autorun] open=setup.exe icon=myicon.ico |
Once the above three lines have been typed in, save file as Autorun.inf
Set on all files in the CD's root directory
If you would like to change the default windows cd icon to your own icon place the icon in to CD's root directory.
Default windows icon
Your own icon
Do not use any spaces between the file names that you're linking to, all the time replace the spaces with underscores “ _ “
Example: my_setup.exe
my_icon.ico
- You can run pdf, doc, html files to run/play automatically using the 'shellexecute' command
For an example
i) Run HTML file automatically
[autorun] shellexecute=index.html icon=myicon.ico |
Replace index.html to your own html file name ex: yourindex.html
and change myicon.ico to your icon file name ex: youriconname.ico
ii) Run PDF file automatically
[autorun] shellexecute=mybook.pdf icon=myicon.ico |
Replace mybook.pdf to your pdf file name ex: yourbookname.pdf
and change myicon.ico to your icon file name ex: youriconname.ico
iii) Run DOC file automatically
[autorun] shellexecute=mydocument.doc icon=myicon.ico |
Replace mydocument.doc to your doc file name ex: yourdocument.doc
and change myicon.ico to your icon file name ex: youriconname.ico
Do not use any spaces between the file names, always replace the spaces with underscores “ _ “
And you can create any file like mp3, jpeg, mpeg, wmv and other files run automaticaly follow the same steps given above.
That's all.
CAUTION! : These tips and tricks are advanced, we can not guarantee that you will be able to solve your problem that result from using tips and tricks incorrectly and is used at your own risk. |
Category: Tips & Tricks | Operating System : Windows |
Tags: Auto Play,Auto Run,Autorun.inf,CD,DVD,shellexecute,Tips and Tricks
0 comments:
Post a Comment