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Hello Experts

For one of our marketing promotion we want to buy some flash drives and give them away. What I want to do is when the customers plug in the flash drive I want them to directed to a webpage. How can I do that?
Thanks

shniz123

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20953875/Enabling-Autorun-on-USB-flash-Drive.html#16592995

nobus

can this help? U3 : http://www.u3.com/

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Thanks for all the help. I have a preloaded the flash drive with a PowerPoint and flash presentation how can I make them load as soon as some one plugs in the flash drive to USB?

callit

If you're using MS Office 2003 (it may be available in previous versions, but that's what I'm working with) there's an option under the file menu: Package For CD - set your options, and click copy to folder. Put that folder on the flash drive, and have it autorun the play.bat file in that folder. Doing it this way has the added benefit of packaging the powerpoint viewer so that people can view the presentation even if they don't have powerpoint installed.

So now you have a folder on your USB drive called Presentation with all the files that powerpoint created for you in it. Your autorun should now be :

[autorun]
open=Presentation\play.bat
icon=icon.ico
action=View Presentation

callit

Better yet, I just realized that it also creates an autorun.inf file for you - so just copy everything to the root of the drive, and add "icon=" and "action=" statements if you want.