beginners question

[mjphoto]

I'm pretty new to this forum and P2E. I was wondering if the program options allow for making your cd self loading when someone goes to view it.

Mike

[Leif]

Do a search on e.g. autorun and you'll most probably get lots of answers. This topic has been extensively covered in this forum. There are even free utilities to help you ... Good luck!

[Guest Techman1]

Mike,

It's as simple as adding one additional file to your CD in addition to your slideshow.exe files. This file is: AUTORUN.INF

Here is a sample of what the Autorun.inf may contain:

[autorun]

open=MySlideShow.exe

This file can be created using Notepad or any other editor that can save a text type file.

Good luck and welcome aboard!

Fred

[alrobin]

Fred and Mike,

Good advice, Fred.

Please allow me to add one more point - make sure the "autorun.inf" file is in the root of the cd (not in one of the folders, if there are any in use).

If you want to put the slide show in a folder, make sure the folder is included in the pathname of the file in the "autorun.inf" file.

e.g. "open=MyFolder\MySlideShow.exe".

[Guest Techman1]

Al,

Excellent point. I try to always include all the .exe files and of course the Autorun.inf in the root to simply my life when creating CD's.

I'm glad you added this to help minimize problems for others in the future.

Good catch!

Fred

[boxig]

Mike

Check also my "Autorun.inf Maker - version 3" free utility.

Will generate advanced "autorun.inf" file for CD.

It's Help file include a lot of information.

Also you can add some other functions to your autorun with this utility then the basic one.

Find it On My Webpage to download.

Any member who has some more information to add the the Help of this utility is welcomed to send it to me so I'll add it to next version.

Thanks

Granot