Anything that makes anything pop up on screen should be Autorun only like naming characters, texts, input number, battle processing, shop processing, etc. Like I said, Txts should only be in autorun because text alone stops all events. If you have trouble running multiple parallel process it could be what's in the parallel process. Parallel process is called parallel process because it doesn't intersect(interrupt or stop) any of the other events. Autoruns stops all events where parallel process doesn't. You can run many parallel processes but not autoruns. Parallel process is good if you want stuff done in the background. There is also an antivirus Program which is made for this purpose only which is mentioned here.Text should always be in autoruns only. However, I recommend you to use some good antivirus like AVG or Avast which takes less load on system and detects any unwanted threats. This is useful when you are unsure about what Pen Drive or CD might contain. You can bypass events written in autorun.inf by pressing shift key while inserting Pen Drive or CD. If you are lazy at writing this codes you can try a free tool, Autorun.inf Maker.

Label – The Volume of Drive to Appear in Window Explorer.

Icon – Specifies the Icon to appear in Windows explorer.Open – Specifies which file to start when media is Inserted.Taking above examples I’ll explain functions of commands here. If you are a geek, then you can accomplish much more and impress your friends with some smart autorun scripts while burning CDs for them!Ī sample of autorun.inf file looks like as shown below: You can set your own custom icon and your own custom file to start when media is inserted in computer. This feature is actually a part of shell32.dll. But actually autorun.inf is just a script for invoking any event when some CD or Pen Drive is Inserted in PC.

Some people assume that it is some Virus/Malware which might infect their computer. While opening some optical drives (CDs) or pen drives you might have noticed that they contain autorun.inf file in it.

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