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I recently created a small, simple app to help my sister get the pictures from her digital camera to her pictures file. I have confirmed the .exe works, and would like to set it to run whenever she plugs in the camera, but can't get it to work, and don't know why. I am using Windows XP SP3, and used TweakUI to set autorun to work on removable drives. It also does not work when I just put in the SD card. The autorun.inf is below, any and all help will be greatly appreceated.

Where exactly are you placing the autorun.inf?

Ron

at the root of the sd card's file directory.

That won't work the way you are doing it. You want something like this:



The OpenFolder.VBS would also be on the root of the media card and look like this:



That is just a very broad example. IN the case of your "open=CameraThing.exe" the camera thing execute would also need to be in the root of the media card. If the camera thing isn't in the root of the card and on the local machine then it won't work.

You can play around with the shell.exe with a file path to the local machine to run your exe and see what works. I haven't tried it. All I did was use shell.exe to point to a VBScript file and run it which opens a folder browser.

Still not sure where you are going with this as when you place a camera media card in the system it should ask you what you want to do? Also anytime the camera card is formatted it will blow away the AutoRun and any other embedded files.

Ron

Thank you, I have it working, however, you still have to click on the camera in My Computer to get it to run. This is for a less tech savy relative, and I would like it to run automaticaly when she plugs it in. Is there any way to get that working, or is that asking too much?

The only way I can think of (and I am far from a programmer type) would be a small script that always ran in the background (VBS or maybe a batch file) that when the camera was connected would trigger and launch your already written code.

That is relatively east with a process starting but I noticed when I connect my camera (USB) to my system it doesn't trigger a process. Then I tried a USB approach looking for a new USB device connected to trigger starting something. I didn't do to well on that note.

Starting or Stopping a process based on another process starting or stopping isn't really that difficult. The problem is nailing down something that happens when the camera is connected and using it as a trigger.

Ron

Ok, thanks.