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November 2008
Monthly Archive
Top Five Windows Sound Effects Songs
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Categories: From the Files of DCOT...Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 by Tim Fehlman
Don’t Copy That Floppy!
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Categories: From the Files of DCOT...Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 by Tim Fehlman
Launch Website from USB Autorun.inf
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Categories: DIY, Freeware, DCoT Apps, Web, USB, AutoIt, HowTo, System Administration, Internet, SupportPosted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 by Tim Fehlman
In my previous post, a user commented that it would be cool to be able to launch a web page from an autorun.inf file. So, I took it upon myself to do just that. I wrote a little program that will do just that!
Download WebLaunch and save it on the root of your USB drive. Then, create an autorun.inf file on the root of your drive with the following contents:
[autorun]open=WebLaunch http://www.dailycupoftech.comaction=Open Website
You can set the http://www.dailycupoftech.com portion to any website you want and you can tweak the autorun.inf file to be as funky as you wish.
There you go, Shoban!
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Tracking Flash Drive Users
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Categories: Portable, Back to Basics, Storage, E-Mail, DIY, USB, Support, HowTo, From the Files of DCOT..., System Administration, DevelopmentPosted on Monday, November 10, 2008 by Tim Fehlman
I recently received an e-mail from Sam J. with a question about flash drives:
Is their any way to record the user name of every person who has used your flash drive?
While there is no fool proof way of doing it, you could try a combination of autorun.inf files and batch file.
Create an autorun.inf file on the root of your flash drive with the following contents:
[autorun]
open=getusers.bat
action=Open folder to view files
Next, create a batch file called getusers.bat with the following contents:
@echo offecho %username%>>users.txt
When a user puts your flash drive into their computer, it pop up with an autoplay option indicating that they are to click on the icon to open the folder to view files. A small black box will pop up briefly and then disappear. If you go into the root of the drive, you will find a new file called users.txt. If you open this file, it wil contain the user names of all the users who have accessed your drive by clicking on the icon.
This is, of course, not a fool proof method as all someone has to do is bypass the autoplay feature and their name is not recorded or they can delete the users.txt file but this is at least a proof of concept.
