Add a program to startup on installation

[Guest]

I want to offer someone the chance to add my new program to their startup
when they install it. I don't mean the Start Up menu, but to be listed in
msconfig and start up automatically when the computer does.

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

 

[Peter Bromberg [MVP]]

Have your installer open your registry and at the key
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run].
--for each program you want to start automatically create a new string value
using a descriptive name, and set the value of the string to the program
executable.

For example, to automatically start Notepad, you would add a new entry of
"Notepad"="c:\windows\notepad.exe".



Peter