ok, burnt a cd for a mate, thought i'd set up the autoplay right, i hadn't. basically, because it's trying to autoplay a html file, it doesn't know that it needs to open it in IE.

anyone know the line i need to use?

then his computer is a hunk of s*** & not set up to open html files properly. I've just gone open=index.htm in the past (or whatever the autorun line is)

you also need an autorun.exe which you can get off the net.

yes, and what ^he said. you need that line in the autorun.inf

IIRC (but i'm going to phrase this wrong anyway), autorun doesn't work in a context where it knows file associations - hence you have to run an actual executable.