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Anonymous
July 1, 2007
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Autorun Feature

  • July 1, 2007
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I have finished a .cp project and have burned a CD and DVD with the "Standalone" option. I have everything checked off that I needed to have a "Autorun" CD/DVD (did this by checking the box) generate option and full screen options. The ZIP option is not checked because I have links within the .cp project to .pdf's. So, to say it again in a different way, I have the following files burned on the CD/DVD but it is unable to "Autorun" in a CD drive or DVD drive on two different types of computers:
1. autorun file; 2. captivate flash document; 3. .pdf files that are hyper linked to the project.
I hope this makes sense. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

Caleb
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Anonymous
July 4, 2007
Hello,

Creating an autorun file is pretty easy, I didn't know how to do it for awhile, but I was able to figure it out. Rather than using Captivate's autorun feature, just open notepad, and put the following in:

For example, if you want it to be so that when you put the CD in the drive, it opens a file called "OpenMe.exe", you would do the following:

[autorun]
OPEN=OpenMe.exe

If you have an icon that you want to be used to replace the cd symbol when you are in my computer, let's say its called "myIcon.ico", it would look like this:

[autorun]
OPEN=OpenMe.exe
ICON=myIcon.ico

Now, when you save the file, save it as "autorun.inf"....

I have never used Captivate's autorun features, so I don't know much about them, but I do know this does work, because I have used it several times before.

Hope this helps

Doug
Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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July 4, 2007
Hi all

Just a few tips regarding autorun

* IT Admin types will often disable this feature, as it is deemed to be a security risk
* When naming your Captivate project that will be started via autorun.inf, stick to the older DOS 8.3 naming convention. Autorun seems to have issues if the Captivate project being started perhaps reads:

My Favorite Captivate Movie In the Whole World.exe

Instead, shorten it to something like MyFavMov.exe

Cheers... Rick
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