Making an auto run cd?

Hi All,

Can any of you fine people explain to me how I can go about making a cd that will auto run when I put the cd in the cd rom/dvd player. I don't want any of the programs on the cd to auto run or auto install off the disk, I would just like it to run automatically when the cd is put in, and display a window with what is on the cd. Maybe some free program that can do this? I'm certainly not an expert so the more basic the better.

I will be giving the cds to others who probably won't know how to make adjustments in Windows to make a cd auto start. A free program that could install something while the cd is being burned, that would then make the cd auto start, and display a window that lists what is on the cd, would be ideal.

Thanks if anyone can help me out.

 

Did you try here ?

Make an Autorun CD-ROM
To make a CD-ROM run a program automatically you use a file named autorun.inf

You create the file autorun.inf in a text editor like Notepad. The file autorun.inf is than located on the CD's root directory. The first line of the file needs to say

[autorun]

add a second line with "open=" and the program desired.

For example an autorun.inf file like this

[autorun]open=explorer.exe /n,/e,.

would make the CD open up Windows Explorer.

Rather than launch an executable you can have Windows launch an html file, use the following for example

[autorun]open=start.exe yourfilename.html

With that you can have the CD launch a web page that then provides navigation to content on the CD.



http://www.davidbartosik.com/2004/10/make-autorun-cd-rom.htm

http://www.pollensoftware.com/autorun/autoption.html


http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd.htm