Job Initiation

[web1110]

Hi y'all,

How do I notify the system that a job is to be started up immediately upon
reboot but only one time.

SpyBot does this. When it finds trash it cannot remove, it can run first on
a reboot allowing it to get to trash before it executes.

It's a technique I may be able to exploit with a C# program I am working on.

Thanx,
Bill

 

[Mark Broadbent]

Could you not do this by having the application add itself to the relevant
startup registry key and upon it's next execution simply remove itself from
the registry?

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Br,
Mark Broadbent
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[web1110]

Thanks, I understand what you say - can you provide some details - this is
an area I haven touched recently, and in the past, I have have been known to
screw up a registry or two. Plus, I am sure C# has some clever tools to
facilitate this.

Thanx again,
Bill

 

[Mark Broadbent]

it would probably be better for you to search through documentation to find
the class that allows you to write to registry -cos Id have to do same
(never done it before either)

seems to be loads of stuff relating to this subject (probably most not C#)
but this url willl give you the idea of what keys to use

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/oreilly/windows/ron/startup_0401.html

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Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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