Autorun USB Flash drive?

Curio · 17 Jan 2012 at 15:10

My boss is doing a presentation next week and he wants to take a bunch of flash drives containing some of our company videos to give out. I thought it might be nice if we could do a Flash (or whatever) front-end that auto runs when the user inserts the drive into the USB port. Just a menu system to select which video to play, our logo, etc.

Having a quick look around, it seems that there is a difference in the way Windows 7 and XP behave with USB drives that have autorun? Sure enough, I found a free little utility to make a flash drive bootable and it worked in one version of Windows but not the other. I'm starting to think it may be more trouble than it's worth, but thought I would check to see if anybody had any ideas?

Thanks!

Deception · 17 Jan 2012 at 15:18

Did you try this?

http://www.addictivetips.com/window...ms-from-usb-flash-drive-and-add-custom-icons/

dan653 · 17 Jan 2012 at 15:33

Autorun has/is being patched out of all versions of windows for security reasons, you can still do custom drive icons and stuff though.

ns400r · 17 Jan 2012 at 17:03

The link above goes to an infected web site !

3dcandy · 17 Jan 2012 at 20:16

won't work in Win 7 as has been said. Vista however is fine, and obviously XP doesn't give a hoot!

KIA · 17 Jan 2012 at 22:14

3dcandy said:
won't work in Win 7 as has been said. Vista however is fine, and obviously XP doesn't give a hoot!

No.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/...ws-xpvista-to-prevent-malware-infections/8123

3dcandy · 17 Jan 2012 at 22:36

generalisation, as a non-security update many people won't have installed this...

Deception · 18 Jan 2012 at 07:10

ns400r said:
The link above goes to an infected web site !

Which anti-virus are you using? :confused:

Im using ESET and it works fine.

KIA · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:31

3dcandy said:
generalisation, as a non-security update many people won't have installed this...

The update is marked as Important and will be installed automatically if Windows Update is set to "Install Updates Automatically".

bledd · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:53

KIA said:
The update is marked as Important and will be installed automatically if Windows Update is set to "Install Updates Automatically".

Correct

Autorun was always a pain in the butt