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Although autorun.inf files are easy to edit using a standard text editor such as Notepad, the <a href=\"http:\/\/autorun.moonvalley.com\/download.htm\">Moon Valley Autorun.inf Editor<\/a> is a free download from the Moon Valley Software website, which includes a particularly useful feature to locate and display icon resources within a .DLL.<\/p>\n<p>Using this, I soon had a file which changed the icon and name for the USB flash drive when I inserted it, but I could not get it to automatically launch an HTML document.<\/p>\n<p>After some searching (most notably <a href=\"http:\/\/techrepublic.com.com\/5100-6270-5268081.html\">a TechRepublic post<\/a>), I discovered that the <code>open<\/code> command in autorun.inf only recognises programs. Windows 2000 and later recognise the <code>shellexecute<\/code> command to open other file types, for example:<\/p>\n<p><code>[autorun]shellexecute=index.html<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Once <code>open=<\/code> is replaced with <code>shellexecute=<\/code>, the context menu in Windows Explorer recognises index.html as the default action for the device, but for some reason it does not launch when I insert the USB flash drive into either of the PCs I&#8217;m using today. I checked out Microsoft knowledge base articles <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=155217\">155217<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=314855\">314855<\/a> but found the PCs were correctly configured to AutoPlay.<\/p>\n<p>Searching the &#8216;net brought up a host of utilities (some free, some not) which are designed to extend the AutoPlay functionality, but by far the most useful utility was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarma.com\/products\/index.htm#\/products\/autorun\/\">autorun.exe<\/a> (a free download from the Tarma Software Research website, not to be confused with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagespro.com\/programs\/725\/\">Peter Harrison&#8217;s AutoRun<\/a> from the imagespro.com website). 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There is an excellent overview of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/10\/windows-autoplay-on-usb-flash-drive.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows AutoPlay on a USB flash drive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,39],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-windows","tag-useful-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windows AutoPlay on a USB flash drive - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/10\/windows-autoplay-on-usb-flash-drive.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windows AutoPlay on a USB flash drive - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve been looking at using the AutoPlay functionality in Windows to launch an HTML document each time I insert a USB flash drive. 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