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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Finding the path for autostart

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kkzgreen
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Posted: 1st Mar 2005 12:00
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Hi all.
I want to make my program start after logging on to a PC.
I know you can do it by putting a shurtvut into "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Menu Start\Programs\Autostart\" folder.
However, with different languages come different paths.
Ex. I have the Polish version of WinXP and my path is
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Menu Start\Programy\Autostart\

How can I find the path? Would I have to use the registry or just ask a user to point me to the path. The second option would be easier but kindof akward.
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fasdfsdaf
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Posted: 1st Mar 2005 12:06
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What you could do is just check when you install it which path exists (you could have a bug-report thingy so you can find out the paths) and then you just set that as a piece of data or whatever in the registry.

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Random 69
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I would just use registry entries. THough this method is potentily very dangerous changing a registry entry to a invalid path or something can crash a entire computer pemanantly.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
HKEY_LOCAL_USER\Software\Microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\windows\currentversion\runservices

Use carefully one will run for all one will run for user one will run in services

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kkzgreen
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Posted: 1st Mar 2005 12:21
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Thanx Random 69
I knew you could do smth like that i just didn't know where in the registry. There is just one problem however, how would you delete it from registry later. (I had a thread like that open once)

I would probably make a dummy program during uninstallation and tell the user that not evrything was removed.

Anybody have any other ideas?
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