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Autorun inf not working2/16/2023 ![]() ![]() It seems simple enough – except that it’s not. ![]() ![]() Icon is a link to an icon file which should be displayed for the drive. Open and shellexecute are supposed to be what happens when someone opens the media or when it’s inserted respectfully. The autorun.inf file is a variation of the INI file format which contains a single header,, followed by a set of values including open, icon, and shellexecute. The frustrating part is that you won’t know why your file isn’t working because there are all sorts of old posts with success. The problem is that it has been exploited on USB drives to spread viruses so now there are all sorts of restrictions and things that used to work don’t necessarily work any longer. That’s what autorun.inf is supposed to do – allow you to directly start content when media is inserted. Those DVDs will contain videos encoded for Silverlight playback at 1024×768 so I can’t transcode them to play on a regular DVD player – I needed to make them automatically start an HTML page which had the Silverlight Video player on it. I’m finishing up a special promotional DVD project where I’ll be giving out some DVDs of content at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference. ![]()
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