I\'m perhaps looking for an advanced third party CD burning piece of software. W
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Question
I'm perhaps looking for an advanced third party CD burning piece of software. What I'm actually looking for is some software that allows me to add a dialog box/notification that pops up when a user reads a CD. The dialog box/notification contains custom text.
(The reason I'm looking for this if I've got a PPT show that will only work properly on Office 2010 and 2013, so I want a notification to pop up that tells the user they need to have that installed for the PPT to work properly).
Specifications:
Freeware/shareware
Works on Windows 7
Explanation / Answer
To have a "pop-up" generated interactively whenever a certain file is accessed, it requires some process running in the background monitoring all file-accesses. While I've never heard about anything exactly like you've described, I at least can suggest you something "close":
There are files you can put into the root directory of a "changeable medium" such as CD, DVD, BD, or even USB-Stick, which describe what should happen whenever that medium is "mounted" (i.e. inserted into the drive/USB-port and made ready-to-use). For Windows systems, that's autorun.inf (just follow the link for a how-to), and a similar counter-part for Unix/Linux systems (plus probably Macs) would be the autorun.sh. That way you couldn't only have an ordinary "pop-up" opening, but run any program you've stored on that medium. Or, probably better fitting for your use-case: Have the default browser opening an HTML file stored on it, with detailed description