1st AutoRun Express 3.0

1st AutoRun Express 3.0 is a tool designed for creating autorun CD in a few clicks with no design or programming required, which allows your CD or DVD automatically to open your documents or display a menu when your disk is inserted into the users computer.

It is an easy to use software, so all you need to do is to specify your documents, web pages and presentations. You can create autorun disks from scratch or add autorun capabilities to the files already prepared for your CD. You can ensure that your users will read your documents! If your user does not have the necessary software to open your documents, then your autorun disk will let the user know where to download a viewer software or even install the software automatically.

Your menus will automatically adapt its look to users operating system and font settings. You dont need to manually position your buttons, just drag your documents to the wizard and let it do all the hard work for you! Once you complete the wizard, you can burn your disk or test autorun without burning.

Major Features:

1. Autorun your CD as simple as 1-2-3.
   • Specify documents to autorun.
   • (Optionally!) Adjust autorun appearance etc.
   • Press Finish and burn your autorun CD!
2. Free for personal, non-commercial use 
3. Fast download - 1MB file
4. Supports modern Windows versions, including: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Windows 2003 and 2008, both 32 and 64-bit.
   

Enhancements:

1. Document viewers
   • Ensure that users can read your documents with this new feature of 1st AutoRun Express.
   • For example if you autorun a PDF file and there is no Adobe® Reader® (or any other software handling PDF files) installed on user's computer, then 1st AutoRun Express can:
   • • Open a special web page for PDF documents in 1st AutoRun Express Viewers Library containing a link to Adobe® Reader® download.
     • Install Adobe® Reader® right from your CD.
     • Open a web page of your choice. For example it can be a page on your web site with download instructions or you may put a direct link to Adobe® Reader® download.
     • Display standard "Open With" dialog and let user decide on his own.
     • Display default Windows interface when it starts unknown file types.
     • Do nothing.
   • For every type of autorun documents on your disk you can select the appropriate option. By default 1st AutoRun Express will use option (1) if it can't open a document on user's
2. Improved menu design customization
   • Use pictures as a background for your menus. GIF and JPEG images are fully supported. You can stretch, tile or center the picture.
   • Menu font customization. You can customize fonts used in the menu.
   • Header font and color customization.
   • Auto-resize of menu elements according to the font size. Parts of the menu (header, buttons, texts) resizes automatically, depending on the selected font.
   • You can optionally disable common buttons in your menu. You can specify whether you want Browse CD or Exit button to be displayed in your menu.
3. Improved menu functions
   • Open folder menu item. You can add a menu item that will open a specified folder of your CD in Explorer.
   • Open web site menu item. Add a menu item to open a specified web site in the user's default browser.
   • Send e-mail menu item. Add a menu item to start a new e-mail message to the specified recipient.
   • Command-line parameters. Now you can specify command-line parameters to pass to the starting applications or documents.
   • Initial window state setup. Now you can specify a desired initial window state (minimized, maximized, normal or hidden) for running documents.
   • Customization of shell "verbs" used to start your documents. There are several "verbs" that can be used to start documents in the different way. For example "print" for Word documents will print them instead of opening in Word. Now you can specify those verbs in the document options.
4. Improved 1st AutoRun Express interface
   • Drag & drop everywhere. In all places where you need to specify a document, a folder, an icon, a web link or e-mail, you can just drag and drop it from Explorer, your desktop or any other place. For example while editing menu entries you can open the CD project contents (using the "explorer" button) and then drag files from there right to the menu. You can drag project folders right into the first page of 1st AutoRun Express to start working with them.
   • Burn right from 1st AutoRun Express. If you are using Windows XP or Windows Vista and you can succesfully burn disks in Windows with Explorer, then 1st AutoRun Express will allow you to burn your CD project right from the Success dialog.
   • Files and folders are auto-copied without questions. Now if you pick files, documents or icons out of the CD project folder, they will be silently copied to the project folder. If you drag & drop folders to the menu, then all their contents will be automatically added to your CD and new entry for this folder will be added to the menu.
   • If you select/drop a group of files, you have several options to pick. Now you can not only add one menu item for each selected file, but also you can put all selected files into a new or existing subfolder and add those subfolder to the menu. Or you can just copy those files for later use.
   • All additional options are now in separate dialogs. If you need to customize CD options, menu design or setup document viewers, you will be able to do it on the last step of the wizard. However you can just press Finish and get your autorun CD.
   • Drag & drop of CD icon. Now picking the icon for your CD is easier than ever. If you like icon displayed for a document/program/whatever, just drag it right to the CD options setup window.
5. Easier CD project management
   • Separate Create New and Continue existing project options. Now you can specify whether you are going to create new autorun project or continue existing autorun project.
   • 1st AutoRun Express Welcome page
   • Easier new CD creation. If you want to create new CD, then 1st AutoRun Express can create a new folder for you (in a special location for new autorun projects). Then you can just drag & drop required files right into 1st AutoRun Express and they will be automatically placed in your new folder. You can customize the location for new projects. For example you may change it to the folder that you already used for your autorun projects.
6. Create new autorun cd project page
   • Easier recent projects management. Now recently edited projects are displayed in a list without unnecessary path information if possible, if project is located in a location for new projects (see above). You can double-click on a project to start working with it.
   • Select recent autorun project
   • Add autorun right to the files waiting to be written to the CD. If you have files that you already sent to your CD (using Windows Send To menu or using Write these files to CD command), then you can launch 1st AutoRun Express and add autorun just to these files using the corresponding option in the Welcome page.
7. Miscellaneous
   • More Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 compatibility.
   • Check for program updates with a single click. Now you can always check if 1st AutoRun Express update is available by clicking on the link right in the program.
   • Auto-Popup help information for interface elements. When you hover various elements of 1st AutoRun Express interface with a mouse, brief help messages about those elements will automatically popup.