Autorun on USB storage device

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Mark K Vallevand

I've done some looking, it doesn't look like there is an easy way to
implement an autorun feature on a USB storage device. I'd like to have a
program executed from a USB device when it is plugged in. Has anyone made
something like this work with XPe?

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I just realized that any solution I've played with so far seems to require a
user logged on.
I'd really like to have something that autoruns a program from a USB device
on a headless (no user login) XPe system.
Maybe I'll need to write a program...

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Mark,

I'm not sure if this will help you or not, but I did something similar where
I waited for a USB key to come in and acted. Take a look at the windows
message WM_DEVICECHANGE. You can get the WParam of the message and if it's
DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL then do some work to determine if it's your key that you
wanted to find and if so do something. You can also take a look at the
LParam and if it's DBT_DEVTYP_VOLUME then you can do some work to determine
the vol letter from the volume unitmask.

HTH,
Brad
 
You stated it was a headless target, so you must be trying to perform some
type of automatic update, or automatically grabbing data or log files?

1) If you have a custom shell, you can test if that drive/file exists every
xx amount of time, and if it does then shellexec the file.

2) You can set DUA to search for the drive and run a script if it exists

3) The are some 3rd party "Autoruns" for CD, USB, or whatever you wish to
put them on.

Richard
 
DUA! That's an idea I hadn't thought of. Hmmmm. Thanks.

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