I've been trying to come up with a way to autorun a series of HTML pages that are hosted on a USB Flash Drive. These are all static pages, and are all linked to index.html in my flash drive's root.
I tried setting up an autorun.inf file like this:
[autorun]
open=index.html
I have also tried this:
[autorun]
shellexecute=index.html
And I have tried this:
[autorun]
open=wscript.exe autorun.vbs
where autorun.vbs looks like this:
Call WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run("index.html", 1)
So far, I've had no luck in getting the application to even show up on the autorun dialog. I even had a more robust autorun.inf similar to this one:
[autorun]
shellexecute=index.html
label=Test Application
action=Start Test Application
shell\start=Start Application
shell\start\command=index.html
shell=start
I switched out various shellexecute/open commands in a number of different configurations. I then stumbled upon a page during my research that said "Windows 7 no longer supports autorun.inf from flash drives." but there was no other information about this that I could find.
Anyone have a solution? I only would like to insert the flash drive and have the webpage within opened without other user input. If I have to deal with an autoplay dialog that has a "Display page" button, that would also be fine.
Edit: I also tried this link: Windows Autorun for an HTML file but it did not work either.
Best Answer
As stated in my comment, windows no longer allows this. Here is a previous Stack Overflow article:
Auto-Running a program from USB flash drive
and another one:
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/autorun-inf-does-not-work-in-windows-7-anymore/
To allow autoplay edit your settings here:
Control Panel->All Control Panel Items->AutoPlay