The MASM Forum Archive 2004 to 2012

General Forums => The Campus => Topic started by: ossama on December 01, 2007, 02:01:20 PM

Title: auto start techniques
Post by: ossama on December 01, 2007, 02:01:20 PM
hello, :bg
what are the techniques that can be used to make a program auto start with windows?
i know one methode wich is: put the path of the executable of the program (that we want to make it auto execute with windows startup) in the folowing registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run


i am using windows xp,
Title: Re: auto start techniques
Post by: evlncrn8 on December 01, 2007, 02:23:34 PM
startup group also, if you put the exe or a link to it in the startup group (can be global, or different per user) that'll work too
Title: Re: auto start techniques
Post by: Vortex on December 01, 2007, 02:28:27 PM
If you wish to associate the autostarting applications with a specific user than you should select HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Title: Re: auto start techniques
Post by: lingo on December 01, 2007, 02:55:34 PM
Auto start methods (http://www.nohack.net/methods.htm)  :wink