Auto launch Power Point 2000 CD Presentation?

[Brianc2k]

I'm having a brain lock here. I have a Power Point presentation done in Office 2000 with music that I want to dump onto a CD and distribute.

CD needs to auto run when the user puts it into their drive. Can any one suggest how to do it? Or, can I just dump it onto the CD and it will launch itself.

Thanks for any response/suggestions you can offer.

 

[fneily]

There's quite a few places on the internet to show you how to create an autorun CD such as:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

Just do a Yahoo search.

 

[combo]

With IExpress 2.0 wizard (win 2k hidden utility, run iexpress from commandline) you can pack your pp files (should be in the same directory) and pp viewer into single exe file. See:

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/pp2003/ppt2exe.html.

After creating filename.exe with this utility, you can design your own icon (filename.ico), create autorun.inf file containing text:

[autorun]
open=filename.exe
icon=filename.ico

Those three files on CD will define CD icon and run the exe file. It will unpack and copy all necessary files to temporary directory and run the viewer.

You can also try installer, as InnoSetup (free) with run after installation option set on.

combo

 

[Brianc2k]

Thanks combo. Sounds like just what I need.