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USB Drive Autorun

Dustin  |  Programming & Scripting  |  January 14th 2009

I have been hunting for a good way to get a USB Flash Drive to autorun when inserted into a computer. The ideal solution would work just as a CD’s autorun (ie work with all versions of Windows and MacOS). Given my time constraint I was only able to locate a solution that works 100% with Windows Vista.

If anyone has a link to the Holy Grail of USB Flash Drive Autorun please comment below :)

Here is what I used
(used it to autorun a Flash Windows Projector file):

Create an Autorun.inf file and place it at the root of your flash drive along with your program files.

[AutoRun]
OPEN=YourProgram.exe
ICON=YourProgramFileWithIcon.exe
ACTION=Message that is displayed
LABEL=Drive Label

Here is the link where most the info I used was found.

Dustin Czysz is a self-taught web developer & strategist from Wisconsin. In 2000 he left his day job to begin his freelance career and later founded Klovera, a web solutions business that focuses on custom development for web and mobile devices.

One Response to “USB Drive Autorun”

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    Chris Carey says:
    April 22, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    The trick is to use a USB stick with U3 technology such as the sandisk. It has a second partition which does show up as a CD-ROM so it always autoboots. The folks over at hak.5 use it for their switchblade hack.

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