I have tested it on windows XP systems, and it should also work on NT/2000 systems (and probably 98/ME as well, though I don't have testing systems for these O/Ss). This could be outstanding when combined with something like USB Autostart or Pstart or something similar, because it would allow you to truly run your own start menu transparently from your thumbdrive (just like the U3 Launchpad does, but with your own choice of application).
It frees you to do whatever you want with your drive and run whatever you want. It doesn't use a clunky flash interface, nor does it require any kind of funky 'u3 format'. Thus, it behaves in exactly the same manner as the U3 Launchpad, but it allows the user to select the program to run. The application, when run from the U3 partition, performs the following actions:ġ) Spawns a copy of itself to a temp folder on the user's hard drive.Ģ) The copy then scans the root directories of all removable drivesģ) If it finds this file, it scans it for the name of the executableĥ) Optionally, it will wait for the executable to finish running and I have written an application called U3Autorun that is designed to replace the launchpad code in the U3 partition of U3-enabled flash drives.
