Autostart program on usb drive

There are two answers to the question. Firstly, you can put autorun. Secondly, you may want to create a fully-fledged autorun USB menu, which can be used to run a presentation, portfolio, etc. Below I am going to tell you how to make use of both solutions. To get started, we need a USB flash drive, Notepad other editors are not recommended as they add extra coding , an application you wish to run when the stick is plugged into the USB port.

The item will be selected by default. Next to the text, the icon specified by the Icon command is shown. And when the user chooses the selected item, the program file specified by the Open command is launched. Sometimes we may need to make an autorun USB menu. For example, as an artist you may want to assemble a portfolio of your designs under a nice front-end and show it to prospective clients from the autorun USB stick.

Or, you may want to create a business presentation or lecture that could also start from the USB key automatically. Face Shields View All. Caps View All. Tote Bags View All. Drawstring Bags View All. Gift Set Small View All. Pure S. Gift Set Medium View All.

Pure M. Gift Set Large View All. Pure L. Next Prev. Email me a PDF Catalogue. Quick Catalogue. Add the following line to it. It is possible to add additional parameters. I was not able to figure out how to create autostart entries that would use the volume name or volume serial number so I asked Didier the author of the software directly. The following paragraph is his answer to the question, thanks for being so quick to answer it Didier.

And in any other case, a virusscan is executed. You would have to edit the path and serial volume number to make the script usable but I think it demonstrates the usage nicely. Keep it up! You mentioned that this program listens to windows events. Can you tell me which events in particular? Or direct me to some resource that introduces me to windows events. They look useful, but the names are not exactly friendly to new faces.

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