More tips on Autorun.inf

More information on Autorun.inf to customize your USB flash drive:

http://autorun.moonvalley.com/autoruninf.htm

USB removable to fixed HD in XP tip

Looking for Autorun and USB flash drive options have yielded some spetacular info.
To trick XP into seeing your USB flash drive as a fixed HD, I found to the folowing to work perfectly:

http://www.lancelhoff.com/2008/06/19/make-windows-see-any-usb-flash-drive-as-local-disk/

I can now use the disk manager to partition the drive into multiple drives.

AutoRun USB flash drive

Here is a cool tip on how to get a program to run when you insert a USB flash drive:

http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/08/11/how-to-autorun-programs-from-usb-flash-drive/

It does not completely autostart for me, but it brings up the AutoPlay window with the first option being the program. Good enough for me.

Blog Policy

I had an epiphany. While googling and researching a tried and true method of installing cygwin on my XP, I found what I thought was step by step information on how to perform such procedure. The format in which the information was displayed, at best, hack-kneed, but it had what I wanted. (I hate tried to read and decipher poorly built web pages with text and links all over the page.)
I followed the procedure and did not succeed in getting the ssh service to start. I tried a few suggested remedies as prescribe by the same page to no avail. I google the message I was getting about the ssh service not starting and found out that indeed I had installed cygwin incorrectly.
My enlightened thought is this:

Rather than I post solutions to the questions and problems I incur, I will post the links to where I found those answers, if they are not mine. This will ensure that if you follow the right instructions. My intention is that I not give you wrong answer, but the proper one.