I have a successful Firefly created utility program I supply to my customer base. I have received feedback that my customers would like an option provided where the utility can be instructed to autorun/autostart upon Windows starting or when the computer is rebooted, the option should also provide for cancelling this direction if required.
I envisage including a check button option that the user can check that causes the utility to autostart or not the next time the computer is started.
Is there a location you have to load with the program's name and path?? or something like this. I remember the DOS days with the old Autoexec.bat file but then I am begining to give away my age.
I havn't a clue where to begin on this and would appreciate any ideas anyone can give to guide me in the right direction.
Regards
Gian Young Australia
First two places that come to mind are:
1 - Put a shortcut in for (XP) in 'Documents and Settings\userprofile\Start Menu\Programs\Startup'
or
2 - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Hi Jim,
Thank you for the pointers here, I am already on to the Registry Option.
I love this stuff because there is always something new to learn. ;D
Regards
Gian