

However, if you are technically savvy, and you know how toįind information in the Internet, with a bit of luck you can make such a flash drive yourself.

That is interpreted by Windows OS as two devices: one looks like a typical CD-ROM, while the second one is a flash USB drive itself.įor some reason, USB drives with such a function are very hard to buy now. It is known that Microsoft has turned autorun off for all USB devices in Windows 7 and higher.Īs we previously wrote, the only way left for users to have the USB autorun functioning on any computer is to use a special USB drive Note that some applications, in addition, may trigger the "unknown/unsigned exacutable" security dialog, as if you opened them manually.How to create an autorun USB drive by yourself, which works on any Windows Also works on Windows 2000 (although autorun on Win2000 for removable drives is not enabled in default configuration). Tested on different computers, running Windows XP without a SP, also on Windows XP sp 1, sp2, sp3, and on various Vistas (not sure which types, but should work all the way from Vista Home Basic to Vista Enterprise Super-Mega-Premium-Extended Edition) and "Windows 7". PStart) immediately, it is possible to insert flash disk with this configuration and start application by clicking OK.

So, although I'm not aware of any way to start the application (e.g. If you want to launch it, just click the "OK" button in the dialog.

On most modern computers (Windows XP SP2+, Vista), dialog "what do you want to do" will be displayed (for security reasons), but what you have in autorun.inf will display as the selected default, with Icon= as icon and Action= as description. On older computers, the program specified in Open= will launch automatically. What it does: when you insert this disk, starts PStart.exe Put a file named autorun.inf in the root of your USB flash drive. Edit: Apparently the functionality was removed from Windows 7 onwards. First of all, some people choose to disable autorun for security reasons but Windows computers up to Vista have it enabled.
