How to use autorun in Windows 7 from a Flash drive to open a webpage?

windows-7 autorun
Jim P picture Jim P · May 24, 2012 · Viewed 56.1k times · Source

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.

Answer

Shawn picture Shawn · May 24, 2012

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

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