RE: Autolaunch a .bat file

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

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:19:02 -0800

I tried changing the registry to:

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

But it still doesn't work. The contents of my batch file is this:
MOVE "\HardDisk\file.txt" "\HardDisk\test\file.txt"
CLS

Does the file specified in the registry have to be part of the OS image?
Does it need to be an .exe or can it be a .bat? Can it be located in the
\HardDisk? Thanks.

"Michael--J" wrote:

> 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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