I was attempting to create a bootable USB drive for the Windows operating system fresh install, and came across this nifty trick, but not what I was looking for.

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USB Flash Drive Autorun Antivirus is an antivirus solution for your USB Flash drive, it provides protection against autorun viruses. It automatically detects, closes and deletes the virus from.

• Autorun Open=MyApp.exe Action=Start MyApp Label=My Portable PC Icon=MyApp.exe. Save the file as autorun.inf in the root of the USB flash drive; In this sample, the Action command will place the text 'Start MyApp' in the autoplay USB dialog. The item will be selected by default. Next to the text, the icon specified by the Icon command is shown.
• USB Flash Drive Autorun Antivirus v.1.0. USB Flash Drive Autorun Antivirus is an antivirus solution for your USB Flash drive, it provides protection against autorun viruses. It automatically detects, closes and deletes the virus from your drive. The software provides future protection by immunizing. Category: Anti-Virus Tools.
• Our software library provides a free download of USB Flashdrive Autorun Antivirus 1.1. FlashDriveAV.exe and load.exe are the most frequent filenames for this program's installer. USB Flashdrive Autorun Antivirus was developed to work on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 and is compatible with 32-bit systems.

What an AutoRun flash drive will be able to do, is when you plug the USB stick into a Windows computer, it will pop up and attempt to AutoRun. This is common for DVDs, that AutoRun some kind of media software and attempt to play the movie or music on the disc. Some artists may use this if they choose to start sending their USB stick in the mail, rather than a CD, or anybody who creates a portfolio that they send off in the mail.

Windows detects the arrival and checks the contents for a special file containing a set of instructions. For a commercial application, these instructions normally initiate installation of the software from the CD-ROM. To maximise the likelihood of installation success, AutoRun also acts when the drive is accessed. ~Wikipedia

How to create the autorun USB flash drive:

1. Open Notepad ( start -> run -> notepad , or also found in your applications )
2. Type:
   

   [Autorun]
   Open=MyApp.exe
   Action=Start MyApp
   Label=My Portable PC
   Icon=MyApp.exe

3. Save this file onto the USB flash drive with the name autorun.inf

NOTE: MyApp is the name of your program that you want to run.

If you’re interested in reading or learning more, head to the Wikipedia page for a start, where you’ll learn the difference between AutoPlay and AutoRun also.

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As a side note, Microsoft has a system monitoring program called Autoruns and Autorunsc that you can monitor which programs are automatically running on your computer, for those of you really nerdy folks out there.

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Special thanks to Visual Designing for their helpful article on this.