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) - - - - - - - - - - - - [AutoRun] open=PortableRoboForm.exe action=Launch RoboForm2Go shell\RoboForm2Go=Launch RoboForm2Go shell\RoboForm2Go\command=PortableRoboForm.exe icon=PortableRoboForm.exe label=RoboForm2Go - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------