limited view of disk content in explorer

[Tomas]

I have created a web site using Publisher 2000 and I am
going to make copies on CD's to hand out. However I want
to eliminate viewing the information on the CD when going
through MS explorer. Also can anyone advise on creating a
auto run for my CD. I plan to publish to the web as well
as publishing to a CD. I'm I dreaming?

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

Make an Autorun CD-ROM
To make a CD-ROM run a program automatically you use a file named
autorun.inf

You create the file autorun.inf in a text editor like Notepad. The file
autorun.inf is than located on the CD's root directory. The first line of
the file needs to say

[autorun]

add a second line with "open=" and the program desired. For example an
autorun.inf file like this

[autorun]
open=explorer.exe /n,/e,.

would make the CD open up Windows Explorer.

Rather than launch an executable you can have Windows launch an html file,
use the following for example

[autorun]
open=start.exe yourfilename.html

 

[Guest]

I don't mean to sound dumb, but how do I get to the root
directory? I looked in MS help and root directory was not
listed, it must be realy simple.
Thanks>

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

a root is the first level.
if you just put a file on a cd or drive that's on the root.
if you created a folder and then put a file in that folder then the file is
not on the root is in the folder, and the folder is on the root.