Hi There, My company has developed a peripheral device that has a USB interface. When the user plugs the device into their Windows XP computer I wish to let them run a control panel application that I have developed. I have followed the information provided here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/11/autoplay/default.aspx The autoplay selection dialog launches, and I can choose my application, but clicking OK does not launch my application. I believe the problem is because the hardware detection service requires additional registry keys to run the application in an interactive session (as mentioned in link above). I have created a registry key HKCR\MyAPPOpen\shell\open\command\ with a default value contained the path to my control panel app. I am having trouble understanding this part of the MSDN mag article: " Since the non-volume handlers are invoked from the Shell Hardware Detection service, additional COM registration must be performed with regard to security. The component as well as the application to be invoked must each have an AppID value. The AppID value must specify "RunAs" = "Interactive User" so that the component will be created by COM on the current console session. Without these settings the COM component creation will fail since services do not run in an interactive session. The relevant settings shown here are extracted from Sample2.INF: HKCR\ CLSID\ "{EE1F39ED-8202-443a-91A9-DD42E3434EB5}" "AppID"="{3308ACA6-E093-4aef-8F81-5AF99D1939D7}" AppID\ Sample2.exe" "AppID"="{3308ACA6-E093-4aef-8F81-5AF99D1939D7}" "{3308ACA6-E093-4aef-8F81-5AF99D1939D7}" "RunAs"="Interactive User" " What GUIDs should I be using and where do I get them from to allow hardware detection service to launch my control panel applet? Thanks in advance, Carl
