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Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:40 pm**

Hi,
I have written a utility program to assist my wife with administration tasks at her gymnastics club. It is used at home on her desk PC and on her laptop whilst at the club. It would also be useful to run it on other laptops without needing to install anything on the laptop; so INI files and temporary files are not sprinkled all over the place. Anyway, it would be very useful to have a program run from a USB stick when it is inserted. Can anyone assist / hint with this or tell me I'm wasting my time?

Thanks
RichardL

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:34 pm**

with a text editor create a file with these contents: ( of course replace my sample gym data )

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[Autorun]
Open=manage\RunGym.exe
Action=Start Gym
Label=GYM USB
Icon=manage\RunGym.exe

name it "Autorun.inf" on the root folder of the USB ( main folder ) and make sure the entension is "inf" not "inf.txt"

However, this feature is probably disabled on your system and if it is not please disable it because anyone with an autoboot usb could run stuff on your computer.

Norm.

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:48 pm**

...Indeed you can simply run the app by navigating to the USB drive and double-clicking the app icon. That way, Windows won't get upset

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