Good day,

I've created an autorun CD with a software called "Visual Autorun", on my Athlon 1.6 mhz w/Windows XP & it works fine. I tested it on a PIII 900mhz w/Windows XP & it worked perfectly. I then tested it on my sisters PIII 600 mhz w/ Windows 98 & it didnt start up. I had to manually go to "My Computer" & run the file. Would anyone know why this problem would occur, and is there a website or tutorial that would help me with this?


Thanks you

Simple question first, does your Windows 98 computer autorun other CD's? Check by following this:

Right-click on the My Computer icon and select Properties.
Choose the Device Manager tab.
Open the CD-ROM branch, and select the entry for your CD-ROM drive.
Click Properties, and then choose the Settings tab.
Check if the Auto insert notification option is on

hi jrobbio,

I checked the system and the auto insert is turned "on", do you know of any tutorial or website that can explainhow to fix this.

Thanks

Are you using Visual autorun just for the autorun feature or the splashscreen as well? If you are just using it for the autorun then I think you can ditch the program.

As you probably know you need to create a file called "autorun.inf" in the root directory of the cd. Use notepad to edit it.

This file must start with the following line:

You can then optionally include any of the following commands:

The name of the icon file that will be used for the cd.

Text label that will be displayed against the cd.

Specifies the file/command that is to be autorun when the cd is first inserted.

Now there's another command that Win98 doesn't seem to support: (see if the program has put this in the autorun.inf)
This specifies an application or data file to be opened.

Right now this is the options you have got available to you:
If you are willing to assume that it will be mostly Windows users that are viewing the CD then use something like:

More simply though would be to make sure the file you are opening with the cd is an executable (.exe) and use this:

so this could be elaborated to be

and that's it.

Hope this helps.

Rob