SWF file autostart from a USB

Hi!
I'm trying to make a swf file autostartable from a usb drive. I have tryed to make the swf into a exe file and make a autorun.inf and just juse a open=shape.exe comand tho i cant get it to work i have tryed some outer lines of code aswell but this line is the one i get when i googled it. Any one out there with a good idé what i could do to make it work?
I have also tryed to get a .bat file to start and well that doesent work aswell-
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