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Q: USB Flash memory - Autorun

Submitted By: InfiniteMonkeys, 306 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes ago

Microsoft designates different types to different USB devices. So even though a CD put in a USB CD drive will autorun, a USB flash drive will not. Autorun is not the same thing as autoload (such as viewing multimedia or the contents of a folder). It is also completely different from autoboot, which can also be easily done with a flash USB device. Autorun will read an autorun.inf and execute the programs just like a CD. There are ways to alter the O/S to force it to allow flash devices to autorun like a CD, but there is no way I have found to take a standard USB flash memory and autorun on any unaltered, logged in, XP computer simply by plugging the flash memory device in. This is primarily for security reasons, however, there are many useful reasons to want to do this.

There is a company that makes a custom USB flash device which creates a partition of the flash drive that reads like a CD and will autorun. I am looking for some clever person who can figure out how to make a standard USB flash memory device work the same way.

Good Luck all.