How do you make a CD "autostart"?

[Meliorator]

I have several Adobe .PDF files to distribuite at work.
I have made a simple .html file that has discriptions and links to each of the .PDF files.

I would like to copy all on to a CD and when inserted into a CD-rom drive have the .html automatically open up.

Any quick and clean ideas?

 

[NJLOAD]

Meliorator: I use this program Multimedia Builder and it does a pretty good job. Also check any shareware sites, they have lots of programs.

dave

 

[EagleKeeper]

You need to create an autorun.inf file on the for the CD
In this file you will have a reference to the PDF file.

1) Are you making the assumption that every system will have a PDF reader.
2) Do you need to place a PDF reader on the CD.

Look at any S/W CD that does an auto install for the exact format of the autorun.inf file.
I did noe a couple of years ago, and it was very simple.

 

[pinhead]

To autorun a powerpoint show I made and to avoid someone having to unpack a presentation and install the viewer I packed the presentation, unpacked it on my pc then copied all the files to the cd. Opened up notepad and typed in the following:
[autorun]
open=ppview32.exe memorial.pps

where ppview32.exe is the powerpoint viewer (which was on the cd) and memorial.pps was the show it was to run (which also was on the cd) then clicked save as and typed in autorun.inf
Hope that makes sense, and might actually help.

 

[Meliorator]

To easy...

Thanks for the help.

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