Auto start exeutacble when jump drive is installed

This may be the wrong forum for this but I figured that I woudl thorw it out anyway. I have an executable that is developed in VS 2005. I want to have this application on a jump drive and have it auto start when the drive is installed into a USB port. The problem is two-fold. Do I need to have the .Net framework on the jump drive and how would I auto start the program. I know that it is possible because every jump drive that I have ever bought auto launches there version of some search/compression software until I remove their files that were installed at the factory.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...light=Auto+Run

Thanks. The autorun.inf seems to do the trick.

Now, here's a real problem. If I have an executable that is developed in .Net that is going to autorun when I insert my jump drive and the host PC does not have the correct version of the .Net framework, I cannot run. Is there anyway around this?

I have coworkers that want to revert back to developing in C++ so that the executable will run on any PC without modifying a customers PC. Is there a portable version of the framework that can be ran from the jump drive?

Unfortunately,

http://vbforums.com/showthread.php?t...hlight=%244000

I was afraid of that. Thanks.

We have numerous clients that are still running Windows NT so it may take awhile before I can send them an app on a stick that they can actually run.