Re: Startup key

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: scorpion53061 (admin_at_nospamherekjmsolutions.com)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:02:20 -0700

Windows has a few possibillities to autostart a program
when you login to windows.

- via the startup menu
- via the registry

You can use this last one in your Setup project to deploy
your application so that the registry settings will be
added when you install the application.

Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Run

In this Key you create a new DWORD and give it a name.
The value should be the executeable that you want to start
when you logon to Windows.

User:
\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\LogonUserName

Why post this to the api newsgroups?

"Wally" <valter@nospamcambieri.it> wrote in message
news:pg6dd.162476$35.7955360@news4.tin.it:
> Hi all. I've wrote, using VB.NET a windows service that starts
> automatically
> at power ON. It works well.
> Now I need that my service write a key in the registry for running an
> application as soon as a user log on Windows.
> I want that this application starts at logon of each user.
> In which registry key I have to write the application path?
> Are there VB.NET examples?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> VV

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