"Beth Haney" wrote in message
Thanks, Pete. I’d only missed finding it by one double click! The news isn’t good. Auto-insert is enabled, so that means the problem is with the CD. Interesting that it will work on one OS and not the other. Do you have any ideas?
Well, if the same burned CD does actually work in another PC, I would say the problem probably still lies in the Win98 computer you’re testing it with.
Unfortunately, beyond that I don’t have any ideas that come to mind. I have had trouble with the auto-insert setting in the past on Win9x versions, in that sometimes when it’s set, CD’s don’t autorun, and (believe it or not!) sometimes when it’s NOT set, CD’s *do* autorun. Grrr… However, when I was having that trouble, it happened uniformly. I didn’t get different behavior with different CD’s.
I did test shex.exe on a fresh install of Win98 and it worked fine. So there’s no reason that it simply wouldn’t work on Win98. But I can’t rule out individual differences between computers that would still cause it to fail to work on particular computers, even while it works on others.
One thing you might try is copying the shex.exe program to the computer and try testing it standalone. Just open a command prompt window and type "shex <document name>" where shex.exe is somewhere in your path (you can either copy it to the Windows system directory, normally found at "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM" or you can just make sure your current directory is where you’ve copied the program to) and <document name> is the filename of a document you want to open (again, either in your current directory, or you need to provide the full path to the file).
Other things to test:
* Try burning a CD without shex.exe. Just use "open=index.htm" for your autorun.inf file. This won’t do the right thing, but it will do *something* (i.e. open the root folder for the CD) and reassure you that you’ve got the basic autorun.inf stuff working on that computer for CD’s you burn.
* Try opening the index.htm file directly from the CD manually just by double-clicking it. This will reassure you that the HTML file does work as expected on that computer.
The basic idea with the three tests above is to simplify the process, so you can narrow down what’s actually going wrong. Using the auto-insert to start up your browser with the index HTML file involves a chain of events that all have to happen properly. By breaking it down into the individual components, hopefully you can learn what part of that chain is not working right.
By the way, this sort of thing is why I really like my CD-RW drive. No coasters. 🙂
Pete
