Making Autorun CD's

[Lord Zado]

My boss just came in and asked me to create a CD that will autorun when put in the computer. They want it to automatically open a menu which would be used to navigate to various files on the CD. They handed me a sample CD which was made by another company and I must say, it looks nice.

When they first asked me to do it, I thought of doing some HTML file with menus, which link to the files on the CD. I've never done anything like this before and it certainly is not part of my job description.

Do any of you know of any freeware that will do the job? Thanks!

 

[AdamSnow]

Very easy to make an Autorun...

Open up the CD from the other company, and look for a file called "autorun.inf" and open it in notepad... That's pretty much all there is too it. That file needs to be on the root of the CD and it will autoload whatever you tell it to. (Application, website, etc)

Go to google and type "autorun.inf" There's a few autorun.inf makers on there that are probably free...

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Sample Autorun disk
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Create a file called Autorun.inf - place it in the root. Make a website called Autorun.html and place it in the root as well... now, enter this code into your autorun.inf file.

[autorun]
open=autorun.html
icon=autorun.ico

Save the file, burn the CD... when you place it in - it will open that HTML website... It can get much more complicated than this, but that just shows how easy it is... 🙂

 

[Lord Zado]

Yeah, I was just googling around. Doesn't look too complicated. Thanks for the help! Now to dust off my HTML knowledge hehe.