Creating an AutoRun CD
A while back, the marketing department of the company where I work wanted to
send out a catalog on CD-ROM. When they approached me, the content and design
had already been completed. What they needed was for the catalog's table of
contents to appear automatically when the CD was placed in the computer's
drive.
An HTM file can not be specified directly in the AUTORUN.INF file, so I created
a small VB application that starts up Internet Explorer and passes in the name
of the web page to display.
To use the application, simply create a directory on your CD called "autorun"
and place the autorun.exe and msvbvm60.dll files in that directory.
Then, create a text file with these three lines and place it in the root
directory of your CD. Here, the web page that will be automatically displayed
is called "contents.htm". Replace "contents.htm" below with the name of the web
page that you would like to display.
[autorun]
open=autorun\autorun.exe \contents.htm
icon=autorun\autorun.exe
You can now burn your CD and when it is first placed in a computer, your web
page will display.
Download AutoRun.exe and associated
files
More information about AutoRun files is available on the Microsoft MSDN website
here.