Autorunning\playing a USB flash drive - how?

[rdale2]

Hi,

I have one of those USB flash drives, pen drives, whatever... does anyone know if it's possible to set it up to autorun like a CDrom when you pop it in. I tried an Autorun.inf, no go.

Any clues would be highly appreciated! It would be great to open an email client or password manager directly, instead of having to find the file in Explorer, then open...

Again, thanks...

 

[sggaunt]

I think the problem here is that the autorun inf you have seen on CD's, is part of the data, not the drive.
as you are on the Delphi formum, you could write a Delphi application that monitors the Dongles drive letter for a specified file
e.g with the fileexists function

if fileexists(F:\autorun.txt) then
begin
// your code
end;

this could be done with a thread, or by using an 'onidle' procedure.
Steve