USB stick drive - autorun?

[jeremybass]

Is it possible to have an autorun on a USB drive?

[John]

Try to change your settings to BIOS after you restart your computer.

Sincerely,
John Mundara
Tech. Support Manager
PowWeb Hosting, Inc
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[tbonekkt]

BIOS isn't right since it won't recognize the USB drive.

I don't see why you couldn't do an autorun.inf on a USB drive, so as long as the OS isn't Win98 (and drivers tend to need to be installed for the USB flash drives).

[John]

Thanks Tom for the correction. I learn't something new :).

Sincerely,
John Mundara
Tech. Support Manager
PowWeb Hosting, Inc
www.powweb.com

[jeremybass]

I tried using an inf with a shellexe and it didn't work? Please try if you get the chance, it may be user error.

Is there another software solution you have seen?

[jschein]

It depends on the bios / motherboard / system manufacturer... A bootable usb drive works great on newer compaqs and hp's, some dells etc... Best you can do is ensure your bios is up to date. If it is an older system, most likely, it will not work.

[jeremybass]

I am giving away about 500 USB sticks at a conference and wanted a presentation to autorun when the end user inserts the drive.

[tbonekkt]

What do you have in the autorun.inf file right now? I can see a potential problem in that how the drive letter is assigned..

[IanS]

I am giving away about 500 USB sticks at a conference and wanted a presentation to autorun when the end user inserts the drive.I have a USB Disk-Pro Memory Stick and the online user manual that came with it shows how to make it bootable. I assume you have some of the sticks you're trying to get to boot, so have you tried reading the manual? (I know it's a basic question, but I often forget that things come with manuals and/or lose them in my chaos so end up looking on the net for the answer :() The particular product I have isn't treated like a CD but like a Floppy and/or Hard disk for booting purposes.

Obviously, you don't want the conference delegates that get your sticks to have to re-configure their BIOS's on their computers just to read your sticks - Which particular make/model/size is it that you're going to use? They may all be different.

[jeremybass]

My autorun script:

[autorun]
open=command /f start index.htm

My USB is on F:

[TVS]

I also have several USB flash drive pens for a trade show.

I've found this solution to work. Result is a command line window opening, initiating the webpage, then closing the command line window.

root directory contents
> autorun.inf
> autorun.bat
> index.html

autorun.bat
@echo off
@index.html
@exit
autorun.inf
[autorun]
open="autorun.bat"

[pixelape]

[QUOTE=TVS]I also have several USB flash drive pens for a trade show.

I've found this solution to work. Result is a command line window opening, initiating the webpage, then closing the command line window.

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TVS - good solution, but when I did it on WinXPPro it get's blocked by the Windows "What do you want to do" popup - really annoying, even if I can disable it, others will run into it.

1) Microsoft now offers a Free USB Flash Drive Manager:

http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/Results.aspx?collID=86

It works but it also runs into (or launches) the nag screen above.

2) PINGTEC (Japan) has a USB Flash Drive with AutoRun ADs
"Automatically launches your non-erasable pop-up or vide AD everytime!"
http://www.mashington.com/pt_prod_as.htm - bit I think it's win98 era stuff.

Everyone - Anybody know how to force and autorun that bypasses the newer Win nag pop up?

Thanks

[satis]

I have a pendrive that has an "encrypted" folder. The way it does that is to autorun a 'decrypter' when you insert the thing. Here's the contents of the autorun.inf

[autorun]
open=JDSecure\Windows\JDSecure31.exe
icon=JDSecure\Windows\JDSecure31.exe

In XP, I still get the "what do you want to do" dialog (ie, open folder, no action, or run the program) but I don't know of any way to bypass that in XP.

[simonpp]

I've tried the script you suggested with no results. did you try this on different drives ? (i have PNY 512 MB Flash drive). thanks in advance.