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Thread ID: 49182	2004-09-12 04:43:00	FAQ #70 - How do I burn a CD to autoload?	-FAQ- (807)	Press F1

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271551	2004-09-12 04:43:00	FAQ #70 - How do I burn a CD to autoload? Originally written by E . ric There are two ways to make a boot-able CDROM: (1) Go here ( . karenware . com/powertools/ptautorun . asp" target="_blank">www . karenware . com) and get Karen's Autorun . inf Editor . ---Contributed by “mikebartnz” (2a) Many computer magazines have Auto-run CDROM with them, open up the file "autorun . inf" on the root directory . Normally you may see three lines of text [autorun] open=booter . exe icon=favicon . ico Copy "autorun . inf" , "booter . exe", on to the CDROM you are making . The EXE file on the OPEN= line may not be called BOOTER, what ever it is called copy that file over . (2b) Make a 16*16 pixel picture for a icon . I used MS Paint program that came with Windows 95, 98 . Then you need to save your picture in a ICON format as "favicon . ico" I used a program like "Irfanview" that you can down-load free from here (http://www . irfanview . com) . (2c) Now get the opening page for your CDROM and make sure it is "index . html" whatever it is called there should be a file on your magazine CDROM with the same file name . if it is called "Index . html" rename your file with capital "I" (just to save any worry) (2d) Hopefully now your CDROM should auto-boot with the four files you have . Below is the four files I got my Auto-run CDROM to work . autorun . inf 1 KB booter . exe 29 KB (may have a different name) default . htm 10 KB (size will vary) favicon . ico 1 KB If your CDROM does not work, look for another HTML file name on the magazine CDROM and rename your HTML file to the same name, then try it again . Some more notes • To open a file on your hard drive e . g . your index page in a directory web-site on C drive: My web site . (file:///c:/web-site/index . html) But the above line will not work if you transfer your CDROM to another computer if does not have that directory or the same file name . • To open or auto-run a text file (readme . txt) you might like to include, notepad, wordpad, metapad, whateverpad, on the CDROM you might like to go in: [autorun] open=metapad . exe readme . txt With a space between the program name and file name . While this works well from a batch file, I have not tested it on a CDROM . I have made an Auto-run CDROM using the method before my original posting and it works well, including on my computer and a couple of other computers I have tried it on . Batch file A batch file to run index . htm is as below: ie autorun . inf [autorun] open=run . bat run . bat @echo off index . htm ---Contributed by Graham Petrie Original FAQ available from here ( . pcworld . co . nz/thread . jsp?forum=1&thread=21570&message=57021&q=faq+%2344#57021" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz) .	-FAQ- (807)
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