Autolaunch a .bat file

From: Michael--J (MichaelJ_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:42:34 -0800

Hi,

is there any way of autolaunching a batch file in CE 5.0? All i want to do
is basically rename, delete, and move some files upon startup. I have tried
the following:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\init]
    "Launch40"="patch.bat"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Loader]
    "SystemPath"=multi_sz:"\\HardDisk","\\Release\\"

patch.bat is the batch file i want to execute and is located in \HardDisk. I
tried this out but it didn't work because the associated files i wanted to
change didn't change. Is there another approach to this? Thanks

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