So, you've worked hard on your presentation, taken the time to burn it to a CD, even tested the CD three times to make sure that it works. You slipped it into an interoffice envelope, dropped it in the mail bin, and waited for feedback. One day passes, then two, then a week, and finally, you call the recipient to ask what they thought about your presentation. "Oh," they say, "we put the disk into the computer and nothing happened, and we didn't know how to run it." If your fist could travel through a phone line, you'd be in real trouble!

This happens in real life, and more often than any of us would care to admit. That's why there's Discstarter. Discstarter creates professional auto-run menus for CD-ROMs, DVDs, and USB flash drives. With Discstarter, anyone inserting your disk or flash drive into a computer will be greeted with menu choices that'll make it pie-simple to launch your content. No more complex notes starting with "Click START, then RUN..."! Discstarter is the perfect solution for building front end menus for software CD-ROMs, eLearning publications, electronic catalogs, manuals, digital business cards or company and product presentations!

The menus that you create with Discstarter are all based on HTML, which means you can use any combination of multimedia elements such as Flash, Java, and embedded video content. Better yet, there aren't any complicated authoring tools or learning curves to navigate. In fact, you don't need any programming knowledge at all. Just use your favorite HTML or Web design application!

Discstarter provides full control over the look and feel of your interface. Include background music, a customized splash screen, implement modern GUI effects, execute programs (even with command line parameters), even run your Discstarter menu in kiosk mode. Even better, with the integrated Server2Go, you can run Web applications on a local machine without using a remote Web server!

From a technical perspective, Discstarter has been tested and proven to work with all Windows platforms, no matter how old or new. Not convinced? Discstarter is the tool used by major magazines to build their front end interfaces for those millions of CD-ROMS that you see packaged with each issue! Just design your menu, then deploy the small runtime file on your CD-ROM, DVD, or USB flash drive!

Please note, today's Discstarter promotion comes in two flavors:

• The Project License is for a single CD-ROM project that uses the Discstarter Runtime System. There are no further royalty fees so you can distribute unlimited copies of your CD-ROM. Also updates and new releases of your CD-ROM project are covered by this license.
• The Publisher's License is for use with an unlimited number of CD-ROM projects that use the Discstarter Runtime System. There are no further royalty fees so you can distribute unlimited copies of your various CD-ROMs.