Magrath Reference: accessing CD-ROM's from public computers

February 08, 2005

accessing CD-ROM's from public computers

A question came up again about using CD-ROM's on our public computers. It's not obvious that you can, since they don't auto-run when you insert the CD, and you don't have a Windows Explorer on those machines to navigate through files.

You can use the web browser to view the files on the CD, though. In the box where you'd normally type a URL (http://something), instead put in the CD and type file:///F (yes, that's three slashes). This should take your browser to a view of the different drives and disks on the machine.

Of course, many of our CD-ROM's require you to install some ^&*($% specialized bit of software to get the thing to work, and we can't install them on the public terminals. So this tip will only help you some of the time.

- Kevin

Posted by magrathref at February 8, 2005 11:43 AM

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