Search thoroughly on the internet and you will find there are risk free
ways to do this. I wouldn't, however, recommend it to anyone without
technical knowledge.
Also, you said, if you put yourself at risk, not others. If a
machine becomes infected, it may cause problems for others, not just
you. It may be part of a botnet and take part in denial of service
attacks, shutting down web sites. It may be used by malware to mail
spam, thus exposing people to phishing and other kinds of fraud. The
malware may try to spread itself to other machines on your network.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2019 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] auto run file
The whole point of having NVDA on a thumb drive is to run it on other
machines where it isn't installed. Why would you want to run it on
your own machine from a thumb drive in the first place? I don't know
anything about disabling this feature but it sounds to me as though if you
do, you open yourself up to malicious software if you use a thumb drive from
someone else. I see no reason to take risks just to make running
something easier.
And you can run it very easily on your own machine without lowering
security. Create a short cut to the exe file on the thumb drive.
Then assign a short cut command such as control alt d or control alt a or
whatever such combination you like. That is so fast and convenient
that there isn't any remotely justifiable reason to needlessly lower
security for convenience.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2019 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] auto run file
Yes. But there are ways, and there are ways. And as long as you run
it on your own computer and put yourself at risk and not others, then
it will still work just as long as you know what you're doing.
Cheers!
On 3/22/2019 11:32 AM, Gene wrote:
Windows doesn't run autorun files automatically any longer from thumb
drives as a security measure against malicious code running. You can
run Narrator, run NVDA, then close Narrator.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] auto run file
Hi Keryn. Here is a sample of an Autorun.inf file.
Copy the below code:
[autorun]
;Open=NVDA.exe
ShellExecute=NVDA.exe
UseAutoPlay=1
Save the autorun.inf file onto the root of your USB drive.
Cheers!
On 3/22/2019 8:36 AM, Kerryn Gunness via
Groups.Io wrote:
hi guys
is it possible to create an auto run file to place on a flash
drive, so that the portable copy of NVDA will launch as soon as the
flash drive is placed into the USB port?
if so how can it be done?
thanks
kerryn
