Autorun help

I'd suggest you write a script that will let you pick between the two and then launch that app. A little VBscript would do it or even a batch file.

This is the best reference for building an autorun.inf file:

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Stupid Microshaft broke the link! The first link for the Wikipedia entry is the link I posted too. It was *THE* reference out there on the internet...and I didn't make a copy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorun
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Here' the autorun file I'm using on a project of mine:

[autorun]
icon=icons\wi0111-48.ico

action=Howto Update the e-Tool
shellexecute=notepad.exe bin\howto-message.txt

label=e-Tool Update

shell\a\command=notepad.exe bin\howto-message.txt
shell\a=Howto Update the eTool

shell\b\command=wscript bin\update-etool.vbs
shell\b=Update eTool

shell\c\command=wscript bin\update-portable-hd.vbs
shell\c=Update portable hard drive

Another option you could do is to reverse engineer my file above with the reference and then make two menu entries, one for each of your launchers. Then you right click on the drive in Explorer and pick from the menu entries you created.

A third idea could be to code a script to autorun, determine the machine name or network you're on, and then launch the correct program for college or elsewhere. Look at the output of the "set" command in a command prompt window at college (if you can get to it) to see if there's something unique you can filter or make a determination on and code the script from there.

Rename the drive's autorun.inf to be autorun.old.

Create a new autorun.inf, using notepad or your favorite text editor that looks like this:

[Autorun]
Open=MyMenu.cmd
Action=Open my menu
Label=Tokelove's drive

Then create another text file named MyMenu.cmd which looks like this:

@echo off&Title Tokelove's menu
:DATE
echo.
echo. | date | find "cur"

:OPTIONS
echo.
echo Menu selections
echo.
echo 1. PStart 
echo 2. Portable Apps
echo.
set /p Option=   Enter menu selection (1,2) or Q to quit: 
if /I "%Option%" == "Q" exit
if /I "%Option%" == "1" start PStart.exe
if /I "%Option%" == "2" start PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe
goto OPTIONS 

Place both files in the root of your USB drive.

This assumes that PStart.exe is in the root of the drive also. Adjust the path accordingly if it's not.

hth
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