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| Installation Requirements |
| Usage |
| Contacting the Author |
History
V1.01 (16 July 1999)
Usage
Places where you might find ShelExec useful are in adding an Autorun.inf file to your
CD-R / CD-RW Discs. For example suppose you have a HTML page called index.htm on the
root of your CD which you would like to run automatically whenever the user inserts
the CD. All you need to do is put ShelExec.exe, some ico file and the index.htm files
into the root directory and create a autorun.inf file with the following contents:
[autorun] open=ShelExec.exe index.html icon=youricon.ico
Items that ShelExec can handle include any file which is registered with
the shell e.g. Word .Doc files, Text Files, batch files etc etc. It can also handle
URLs such as http://somesite.com, ftp://www.microsoft.com and
mailto:pjn@indigo.ie.
The more technically minded of you may say why is there a need to have this program since
you can use start filename on autorun CD's without any apparent problems.
The problem with this approach is that it does not work on NT because on NT "start" is
implemented as an Internal command in cmd.exe (as opposed to a standard exe on
95/98) with the upshot that your CD's will not AutoRun on NT 4 or Windows 2000. Using
ShelExec will mean that your CD's will autorun on all OS's which support it.
Contacting the Author
PJ Naughter
Email: pjn@indigo..ie
Web: http://www.naughter.com
16 July 1999
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So I don't know if this is a crazy question or not, but here goes.
