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I'm having a lot of problems getting Autorun to work properly with a
USB-based drive. I've seen a lot of documentation that is contradictory, so
hopefully someone can point me to the source of the right information.
Putting the following onto a removable USB hard drive (volume-based music
player), does not do what I want it to. It appears that autorun.inf is
ignored, and content sniffing happens and Autoplay is invoked (despite the
documentation found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/11/autoplay/default.aspx )
Here's what I've put onto my disk...
autorun.inf
setup.exe
\setup\_bunch_of_setup_files
the contents of autorun.inf are pretty darn simple:
open=setup.exe
When I plug this device in, Windows XP does a sniff, finds some music and
some pictures, and displays a mixed media dialog rather than running my
autorun.inf.
What gives? Once I get this one answered, I'll have more... ;-)
Thanks.
Phillip
I'm having a lot of problems getting Autorun to work properly with a
USB-based drive. I've seen a lot of documentation that is contradictory, so
hopefully someone can point me to the source of the right information.
Putting the following onto a removable USB hard drive (volume-based music
player), does not do what I want it to. It appears that autorun.inf is
ignored, and content sniffing happens and Autoplay is invoked (despite the
documentation found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/11/autoplay/default.aspx )
Here's what I've put onto my disk...
autorun.inf
setup.exe
\setup\_bunch_of_setup_files
the contents of autorun.inf are pretty darn simple:
open=setup.exe
When I plug this device in, Windows XP does a sniff, finds some music and
some pictures, and displays a mixed media dialog rather than running my
autorun.inf.
What gives? Once I get this one answered, I'll have more... ;-)
Thanks.
Phillip