Loading app on start of windows?

[jorge]

Hey,
How can a load a application when windows start?
But i don't whant to make a link in startup.
anyone???

 

[Hughng]

What OS are you trying to work with?
In Win9x you can use msconfig to set a startup program.
In Win2K XP try to make it as a service if you can.

 

[jweissberg808]

there's also a registry key for loading apps at startup - and they won't appear in the startup folder in the start menu.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

 

[jorge]

Cool,
The registry sound interesting,
How can i add them from within a program?

 

[mutant]

You can set it using the RegistryKey class:

Dim key As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine
'dim RegistryKey class and set it to LocalMachine
key = key.OpenSubKey("Path to the key", True)
'open the sub key
key.SetValue("YourAPP", "PATH") 'create new entry
key.Close() 'close and flush the key

 

[jorge]

Thanx mutant,
One more question, and how to remove?

 

[mutant]

Same except you change the SetValue line to:

key.DeleteValue("YourAPP") 'delete the entry

 

[jorge]

Hmmz get a error,
Somting about a object reference??

 

[mutant]

It works for me all right.
Are you sure you specified the right path? Thats when that error happens.

 

[jorge]

this is my path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
OR do i need a '\' at the end?

 

[mutant]

Dont put this in it:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
You already specified it as the LocalMachine here:

Dim key As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine

 

[jorge]

Ok thanx
let me try...
Ok work thanx agen

 

[Diablicolic]

Omg that is awesome, thanks mutant, you helped me too lol.


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Wait wait, the place where you put the application name. Let's say if I wanted to add notepad at startup, would the Application name be:

notepad?
notepad.exe?
NOTEPAD?
ProcessID?

And what if I created an application that is named: notepad?

Would they both startup (the one from system32 and the one I created?)

 

[mutant]

You can call it whatever you want, the name of the key isnt tied to the name of the app. But its good to know what starts up so you should put in some name that can easily identify your app.

 

[Diablicolic]

Doh!

Thank you Mutant