Well, I can answer your second question!
If you look in the download section, under ultilities, Linkage:
http://www.computerhope.com/dutil.htm You'll see 2 programs that may help you. One called Bat2Exe, and one called AutoRunPro. AutoRunPro is a program that can run bat files in autorun, because you can't run bat files by themselves. Personally, I've never had much sucess with that one, actually, none at all. lol. So the other program you can try is Bat2Exe. What this program does is turns your bat files into .com files, which can then be renamed to .exe (depending on the code) , and then can be auto run! Though you may be able to autorun .com files.