I need a file which will execute on insertion of the DVD and copy the contents to the root of C:. I am a college prof trying to distrubute class notes.

How do you know user has rights to access C:\ How do you know the user hasn't ( for security) disabled autorun? "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

I agree with jefro, you have no way of knowing if it can be acheived on all computers, even though it's easy enough to do. Copying files from dvd to hard drive is not rocket sience and anyone can do it themselves. However I question the need to use the root of the c: drive, this is not a recommended destination and they are only class notes, copying to the Documents/Class Notes folder is a more sensible option.

Both of you ask good questions, before I turn to them, let me give you a little background. I am a college prof (Finance) and am teaching an online MBA course. To support this I have developed a series of powerpoint lectures which have videos of me lecturing with most of the screen showing ppt images and text which help clarify the topic. The total lecture series is about 4 GIG and takes up most of a DVD. My current practice is to mail the students a DVD and they copy it manually on to their C: drive at the root. They drag and drop one folder which contains about 15 folders and within each folder is a lecture and about 50 video clips. All of this detail is transparent to them; they just drag and drop the folder to the C:. I have also tried streaming video with very mixed results. Some students do not have adequate bandwidth to handle it and many students just prefer to have it on their computer; in some cases these are students who travel and they can watch the lectures in an airplane. Also, playing from the DVD without installing to the hard drive often results in jumpy videos, much like inadequate bandwidth. Now to the questions. First, I agree putting all this on the C: drive only works because it is in a single folder. The students are also instructed to delete the folder to recover the disk space when the course is complete. Secondly, from a technical standpoing I really do not know what permissions they have on their computers; most of wich are at their home. I have taught the course a number of times and all students have successfully been able to copy from a rights and permission standpoint. Unfortunately about 25% copy the folder in question to strange places on their computer which makes the PPT lectures fail as there are embedded pointers looking for the videos. Having said all that, if you are still with me, I will pay $50 to the first person who sends me an email with an attached file(s) that will copy the folder in question to the root of C:. My email is and I am under some time pressure. Thank you Dr. Henry Barker Professor of Finance Tiffin University

I have emailed you a zip file that will do what you have asked as best as I can interpret. If any problem feel free to reply. It only took a few minutes to create and is free for the asking. As the previous posters have noted permissions might be a problem if the user is not logged on as an administrator. I have given administrators full access to the files. I may be able to give the user group "everyone" full access if you think that may be a problem.

I would remove your email address immediately (using the Edit facility) or the spammers engines will find it, send it to all their contacts and bombard you with junk email forever. Either disguise it "from machines" somehow (such as # for @ sign, then explain) or use the Private Message feature to give it to a particular helper. some other bloke...

If you are so afraid of being spammed why did you register for this well known site? I would be more leary about this site than a personal email address. Just take a look at all the distracting advertisements. Someone is more interested in making advertisement revenue than solving problems and you are the vehicle by which they are doing it.