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Solved an autorun problem on a CD I created
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 3:42 pm
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Posted by Ian (2 messages posted)

I had a problem with an autorun CD I was creating: It would open the cd as a folder. This was strange, as it didn't do any of the other autorun things it should have done (like ask me what I wanted to do with it). The solution : The text editor I had used to create autorun.inf had saved it in its default UTF-8 character encoding. It seems the windows autorun thingy doesn't know how to read UTF-8. When I saved the file as ANSI, it autoruns perfectly.

Written in response to:: BF2142 wont autorun and windows xp cant find the CD (Silentfury: Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 2:39 pm)

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AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (John N. Shaw: Fri, Oct 18, 2002, 9:42 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (John N. Shaw: Fri, Oct 18, 2002, 10:21 pm)

A friendly thanks for all the info here (Mike: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 3:18 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (skoob: Fri, Oct 18, 2002, 10:50 pm)

still no luck (John N. Shaw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 5:33 am)

re: still no luck (wguru: Mon, Apr 24, 2006, 12:55 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (jcw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 12:16 am)

still no luck (John N. Shaw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 5:28 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (HC: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 1:21 am)

still no luck (John N. Shaw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 5:52 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Paul TW: Tue, Jul 22, 2003, 11:13 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Chris: Mon, Oct 27, 2003, 4:55 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (JC: Wed, Nov 26, 2003, 11:54 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Noel: Thu, Aug 26, 2004, 12:44 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Jonno65: Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 1:44 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Noel: Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 2:46 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (wm1228: Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 9:01 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (D-an-W: Sat, Nov 20, 2004, 5:13 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work Final Solutionstances, please read! (Billy Stout: Tue, Dec 7, 2004, 4:47 pm)

FiXED!!!!!!!!! (John N. Shaw: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 2:42 pm)

re: Same problem with me - need help !! (Idan Bismut: Tue, Dec 31, 2002, 4:44 pm)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Preston Kincaid: Tue, Jan 21, 2003, 11:42 am)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Lars: Fri, Jan 24, 2003, 8:21 am)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (kenneth: Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 12:53 am)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Bemused: Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 11:39 am)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Kristina Hong: Sat, May 3, 2003, 9:36 am)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Michael Chan: Mon, May 5, 2003, 9:50 am)

re: FIX INSIDE!!!!! (Gervais: Sat, May 10, 2003, 7:51 am)

Have tried all of this and still no autorun!! (Dave Fry: Wed, Oct 1, 2003, 7:17 pm)

re: FIX INSIDE!!!!! (brad: Tue, Nov 4, 2003, 5:12 am)

re: Alternative FIX 2 !! (Tommy: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 9:09 am)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (wguru: Mon, Apr 24, 2006, 12:07 am)

100% fixed! (Julian: Wed, Nov 12, 2003, 9:17 am)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Ali: Fri, Jun 27, 2003, 8:39 am)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (Kemko: Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 2:53 pm)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (nick: Tue, Jul 22, 2003, 6:04 am)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! - and my method too!! (Jim C.: Thu, Apr 29, 2004, 5:26 am)

re: Addition to: FiXED!!!!!!!!! - and my method too!! (Gil C. Schmidt: Sat, Mar 5, 2005, 6:31 pm)

re: AUTORUN FIX (paddy: Sat, Oct 1, 2005, 4:58 am)

Paddy's suggestion worked for me (yk07: Tue, Jul 18, 2006, 9:09 am)

Paddy's suggestion worked for me.....until (yk07: Wed, Jul 19, 2006, 1:00 am)

BF2142 wont autorun and windows xp cant find the CD (Silentfury: Sat, Nov 11, 2006, 2:39 pm)

Solved an autorun problem on a CD I created (Ian: Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 3:42 pm)

re: BF2142 wont autorun and windows xp cant find the CD (Matt: Wed, Jan 17, 2007, 6:31 pm)

re: FiXED!!!!!!!!! (paul: Wed, Apr 6, 2005, 8:23 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Brian Graham: Sun, Jun 15, 2003, 10:46 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Luke: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 7:50 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (wguru: Mon, Apr 24, 2006, 2:59 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (chevis: Thu, Oct 30, 2003, 1:50 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (John: Sun, Apr 9, 2006, 4:50 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Jim: Mon, Apr 10, 2006, 1:38 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Graham Wilson: Mon, Jun 14, 2004, 9:37 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Carnival: Mon, Aug 23, 2004, 8:37 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Jonno65: Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 1:49 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Rob James: Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 6:27 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Carnival: Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 10:03 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (cindy: Sat, Oct 16, 2004, 8:18 pm)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Zaphod: Wed, Dec 29, 2004, 8:31 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Finn Bogstad: Sun, Jan 2, 2005, 7:44 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Huey: Wed, Dec 28, 2005, 10:45 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (kplaw69: Sun, Aug 5, 2007, 7:34 am)

Restore default autorun settings for the affected drive (Immacolata: Sat, Feb 12, 2005, 4:50 am)

If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (Dvorak: Mon, Apr 18, 2005, 7:15 am)

re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (Bill: Wed, Jan 18, 2006, 4:16 pm)

re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (AllenLI: Wed, Feb 8, 2006, 4:27 am)

re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (gerard higgins: Sat, Jul 14, 2007, 2:33 am)

re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (Dvorak: Sat, Jul 14, 2007, 6:09 am)

re: If nothing else works, try this. Worked on mine. (Rumaldo: Sun, Apr 20, 2008, 2:19 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (jerrry lewis: Sun, Jun 5, 2005, 6:57 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (timforan: Tue, Jun 14, 2005, 12:45 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Rob: Sat, Jul 2, 2005, 8:46 am)

It's a software problem ! (Larry: Fri, Jun 17, 2005, 9:32 pm)

re: It's a software problem ! (Mark Palmer: Thu, Jun 30, 2005, 11:16 pm)

re: It's a software problem ! (Peter Fez: Tue, Jul 5, 2005, 7:32 am)

re: It's a software problem ! (Peter Waller: Fri, Aug 19, 2005, 7:13 pm)

re: It's a software problem ! (John Boutland: Sun, Oct 2, 2005, 11:03 pm)

re: It's a software problem ! (Todd E. Bryant: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 11:41 am)

AUTORUN -partially- works now... (Sam Smith: Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 8:40 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (Wogboy: Thu, May 25, 2006, 5:46 am)

re: AUTORUN does not work, special circumstances, please read! (harvey: Sat, May 5, 2007, 11:00 pm)

It's a reg thing but none of these worked (stuartjk: Tue, May 29, 2007, 4:21 pm)

Finally! A real fix! (Ani Marie: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 8:46 am)

re: Finally! A real fix! (KRJ: Wed, May 28, 2008, 9:05 pm)

re: Finally! A real fix! (Spexx: Thu, May 29, 2008, 4:41 am)

re: Finally! A real fix! (KRJ: Thu, May 29, 2008, 6:41 am)

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