-=PCTechTalk=- Part 1 plus Part 3

Side note to members:  
Gman and I are trying to figure out why the message, part of which is quoted 
below, has not been getting through to the group.  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Don101 
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 7:15 AM
Subject: Autorun.inf

Gman and everybody else that may be interested....

1. This is the autorun.inf for the portable version of AIRoboform.  Can you 
help me figure out what purpose the various lines are for?  Below is my guess 
as to what it all means and how to use it.  I got a lot of help from the MSDN 
website here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776823.aspx 
(http://tinyurl.com/69mu8y).  That link came from WikiPedia at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorun  (http://tinyurl.com/sdkfs)
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[AutoRun]         
open=PortableRoboForm.exe
action=Launch RoboForm2Go
shell\RoboForm2Go=Launch RoboForm2Go
shell\RoboForm2Go\command=PortableRoboForm.exe
icon=PortableRoboForm.exe
label=RoboForm2Go
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2. 
a. [AutoRun] is maybe just a label?
b. open= identifies what will run/launch when the action displayed in the 
autorun dialog box is selected
c. action= specifies the text that will appear as an option in the autorun 
dialog box.
d. shell\RoboForm2Go= specifies the text in the context menu when the drive 
bearing the label RoboForm2Go is right clicked
e. shell\RoboForm2Go\command= specifies the command to execute when that option 
on the context menu is selected.
f. icon= tells the system where to find the icon to display for the drive.
label=  specifies the label or name of the drive.


6. If all of the files are located in the root with the autorun.inf file will 
any pathnames be required?  If they were in a subfolder beneath the root how 
would a relative pathname be constructed?  I think it would need to be a 
relative path since the drive letter might be different on various computers 
the drive gets plugged into.  Is anything special required to make a batch file 
run under a windows environment?
7. I think the shell lines could be optional but if not then they would look 
like this:
shell\PortableApps=PortableApps
shell\PortableApps\command=portableapps.bat
8. I think additional shell lines could be added to start each app 
separately... such as:
shell\PortableApps=RoboForm2Go
shell\PortableApps\command=RoboForm executable
shell\PortableApps=aSuite
shell\PortableApps\command=aSuite executable

Don

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