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General discussion

autorun on thumb drive

Dec 26, 2006 1:35AM PST

Is there a way to setup a thumb drive where Windows reads the autorun.inf like on a CD? I do not want the autorun option menus to come up, just the program to launch. I need it to do this for any computer it is attached to. Is that possible?

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Yes. Just do the same as if it was a CD.
Dec 26, 2006 1:39AM PST

Widely documented so I'll just end here.

Bob

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Yes, but...
Dec 26, 2006 1:50AM PST

I'm setting this up for a blind person who has an installation cd for a program that allows the computer to talk. When I try to set this up, Windows doesn't just run the program. It gives a list of options, one of which is to run the program. I want it to just go directly to setup.exe when the drive is inserted.

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Then hand out a CD? Cheap, effective.
Dec 26, 2006 1:59AM PST

As to why the USB didn't autorun I can't see your work so I can't guess what you did. I won't duplicate how CD autorun works since it's widely documented.

Bob