Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-05-11 01:30
Did you keep the same directory structure as on the drive where you originally created it? For example, if you created it in d:\temp\nvda, you need to copy it to the CD as \temp\nvda.

Comment 2 by challsworth2 on 2012-05-11 07:17
Yes I did. Thanks for changing the bit about core, installer, etc; wasn't sure which category to choose. But yes, I did burn it using the same directory structure as the portable copy.

Comment 3 by challsworth2 on 2012-05-11 10:50
Got an update for you. It's even broke on Windows XP. When you insert the CD on a Windows XP machine, and you try to access the CD from say Windows Explorer, you will get the following message.
"d: access is denied"
Followed by an ok button.
This is assuming d: is your CD drive.
I don't mean to be awful, but this is pretty serious. We cannot have a broken autorun can we. But I'm pleased this has been caught in the early phases of the beta. I would hate to see this regress in the final release.

Comment 4 by jteh on 2012-05-11 11:47
Fwiw, it's not a regression, since you could never auto-generate autorun files before. Have you tested this on a USB key with XP? Does it work there?

Comment 5 by challsworth2 on 2012-05-11 12:23
Thanks for the suggestion, will give this a shot. I assume this also applies to USB hard drives as well? Just checking that's all. Cheers!

Comment 6 by challsworth2 on 2012-05-11 16:06
In answer to Jamie's comment, no. It is also broken on USB keys and USB hard drives. The autoplay dialogue box comes up instead of NVDA. Autorun.inf was located on the root of the key or hard drive.

Comment 7 by mdcurran on 2012-05-15 06:34
Not sure the exact problem with USB keys as I currently can't test, but its evident that for a long time the portable version has been unable to run off read-only media such as a CD. specifically its firstly because it tries to create a user configuration if it doesn't exist (which fails) and also more than one other place in NVDA assumes that the userConfig dir is writable.
Therefore we are now stating in the User guide that to run NVDA off read-only media, you should use the download package, not the portable version.

In regards to autorun itself: because NVDA can't run on read-only media like that, and because getting NVDA to autorun off a USB key only works in very specific situations, we have chosen (for 2012.2 at least) to remove the Create Autorun File feature all together.

We MAY however at a later date wish to put further RESEARCH into supporting autorun for U3 drives specifically.

Leaving this ticket open but only to specifically address issues with read-only media such as CDs (not autorun).
Changes:
Milestone changed from None to near-term

Comment 8 by mdcurran on 2012-05-15 06:35
create autorun and updates to the user guide were made in 61c2d1c.

Comment 9 by challsworth2 on 2012-05-15 07:36
Thanks guys for the update. I look forward to further developments regarding this ticket.

Possibly related: #2216

CDs/DVDs are a lot less common now; many systems don't have such a drive. It's possible to emulate one with a U3 drive, but U3 drives have been discontinued. Thus, I don't think putting resources into this makes sense. I think running the download package (rather than a portable copy) is acceptable where someone does still want to do this.