standalone exe autorun not working

Forum|Forum|19 years ago
January 22, 2007
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I exported my project as a standalone exe and checked the options to generate autorun for cd and the full screen option. After burning the CD, when I put the CD in, nothing happens. If I try to click on the cd rom drive, it asks me what program should Windows use to open it.

I have full control over this pc, so permissions aren't an issue.

Here is the content of the autorun.inf file:
[autorun]
open=file.exe
icon=file.exe,0

Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks.

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wxcinc

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good information! Thanks man!

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Hollie_Batesville

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I am having the same problem and haven't been able to figure it out. I need to create a CD to distribute to 150 non-technical users - so autorun is a must for this project.

Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi all

mja2006, my question to you would be to ask if your project is truly exporting a file named "file.exe"? Or is it something different, such as "How to create a file.exe"?

For Hollie_Batesville and others, autorun has its own little idiosyncrasies. So I would check the following items:

1. Avoid using long file names. Personally, I stick to the old DOS 8.3 file naming convention. This means using 8 characters for the File Name and 3 characters for the file extension. As Captivate is creating the extension for you (.EXE) that part is taken care of. So all you really have to worry about is the initial part.

I've had it happen to me where I have a project I exported using a name such as:
Captivate Bonus Files.exe

Autorun failed

But when I modified it to say:
CapBonus.exe

Autorun mysteriously began working

2. Avoid using spaces in your file names. For example, My Project.exe should probably be exported instead as either MyProject.exe or possibly My_Project.exe. Again, note that even that one exceeds my recommendation for the 8.3 format, so I would probably even amend that further to something like MyProj.exe or something along those lines.

Hopefully these suggestions help... Rick

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Hollie_Batesville

Participant

Rick,

Thank you for the information about the 8 character file name - that seemed to be the solution. The autorun worked with a file that had an 8 character name (MMWTrial.exe) and wasn't working with longer (MMW_Web_Demo.exe) or shorter files names (MMW.exe)

Hollie

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