CD autorun disaster in Win 2K Pro

[studioman 0]

Hi,

 

I have successfully created autorun and autoplay PowerPoint CDROMs which work in Win 95 and 98. However to complete my hat-trick I want the CDs to work in Windows 2000.

 

Here's what happens

 

1. On one Win2K machine the autoplay worked, but very slowly, then the

show slides worked OK until the first MPEG1 slide - it took 30 seconds to play.

The next slide with an MPEG1 movie in did not play at all, just stayed on the black square.

 

The next Win2K experiment was on a laptop. The autoplay began, suddenly flashed up the first slide and then in a millisecond just disappeared as quickly, no sign of the show. We had to go to the CD and press the Autorun icon and the same thing again. Only when we double clicked the Powerpoint.ppt, did it play alright.

 

So here's my question(s):-

 

1. does Win2K have a problem with Autorun CDs?

2.If so how do I overcome this by including something on my CDs?

3. Does anyone know of anything I can do to make my Powerpoint shows, including MPEG1 movies, autorun and play in Windows 2000?

 

any help gratefully received.

 

Thanks Chris

 

ps I can include a list of the .dlls etc I had to include on the CD to get it to run in Win 95 and Win 98 with no problems.

[Brian Frank 0]

Win2k doesn't have this problem with autoplay. I did see something about the autoplay stuff and someone posted a link to Microsoft's page on stuff about setting up autorun files...but I can't remember where I saw it. Try using the search function and look within the past week.

[Wolf87 0]

Notetab creates the basic autorun.inf file. A text file with *.inf.

 

The content is [autorun] plus reference to some executable and some icon on the CD. See the content of the Descent 3 CD-ROM autorun.inf:

 

[autorun]

open=Descent3AutoRun.exe

icon=Descent3AutoRun.ico

 

Windows 2000 will recognize it if this Dword is active in Registry:

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom]

"Autorun"=dword:00000001

[selenbor 0]

by the way, does shelexec.exe still work unter 2000? find it via ftpsearch.

To open .htm-file, have an autorun like

 

shelexec index.htm

 

only include shelexec.exe additionally on cd. it is 19kb of size.