Re: depend and launch in init registry

From: Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] (ptobey)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:08:41 -0700

Did you even look in the Platform Builder help? I searched on <launch init>
in the 4.2 help and one of the seven results gave a very clear description
of what the keys and values mean.

Both of your assumptions about the key meanings are wrong, by the way.

Paul T.

"Kursad" <Kursad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:47E7B5C2-EE30-408F-AA18-79CD276BF5E6@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Can anyone explain the semantics of "dependXX" and "launchXX" in the
> registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/init? Specifically:
> 1. LaunchXX tells the order to launch these applications, is that correct?
> 2. DependXX says "If the dependent application doesn't exist, don't launch
> this one either". Is that correct?
>
> Basically, the problem I'm trying to solve is this: The video driver has a
> problem with resetting. As a workaround, I need to launch an application
> during startup that will reset the video. However, this application has to
> run after the video driver finishes its initialization. The windows screen
> comes up after the initialization is complete, so I made my video reset
> application to run after (and it is dependent on) explorer.exe. Is there a
> better way to do this? Is there a way to find out if the video driver has
> completed its initialization?
> Thanks a lot!

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