Automatically start software

The autorun.inf file is the key to getting your USB drive (or CD-ROM drive, for that matter) to perform certain actions automatically and customize it?s look in My Computer. The purpose of this article is to shed some light on how this can be done.

http://dailycupoftech.com/usb-drive-autoruninf-tweaking/

Sample Autorun.inf

[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=setup.ico

To run a Batch file that will invoke a Program.

[autorun]
open=sub.cmd

sub.cmd
==================
@echo off

set path=%~dp0;%path%

subst V: %~dp0

goto view

:view

explorer /e: /root,V:\icons

goto end

:end
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http://autorun.moonvalley.com/autoruninf.htm

for an IT administrator, having someone running around with a flash drive that will autorun a program when you plug it in, gives me the willies.

When someone asks this kind of question, I envision someone with an ax to grind creating this little virus program that runs when you plug in the USB drive thus infecting the network.

And I can't help but form the totally ill-educated, dipstick-like opinion that it is basically intended to ALLOW an application to run, rather than to invoke it's activation.

Most of what 'Future Technology Devices International Ltd.' have to say about it, tends to suggest it is deigned to act like a security dongle. I've never seen a dongle that activated a dormant program, more like allowed a program to be started by the user.

But what would I know - I'm just a dipstick.

anyone who creates hardware using USB usually makes the damn thing plug and play. If not, then as Jackie Howe mentions, they supply the drivers and applications required, like printer and scanner mfgs do. .

I program, not often, but must be a dipstick as well.

All this response is not answering my question. How do I get a non USB memory program ie c:\program files to start when a USB device other than a drive is connected to the USB port ie plug and play?

Please some useful answers