Auto launch on Windows OS Load
how do i get my program to automatically launch when the windows loads.
for example msn has this option and lots of other chat programs
i heard i have to edit a file called autoexec.bat
where is this file?
im new to programming if i edit this file badly is it gunna mess up my pc?,
should i leave it alone?
Last edited by DDAZZA; 06-11-2007 at 01:05 PM. Reason: changed title
Do not edit autoexec.bat if you're on Windows XP. This is for the older Windows operating systems that were more DOS-based.
To get a program to start up automatically for Windows XP, you need to edit the registry. If you are not familiar with this, you could very well break something important. Make sure you know what you're doing.
Why not add the shortcut in the startup folder of your start menu?
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ok i dont want to edit the file beacuse i dont know what im doing lol
well creating the shortcut would be fine BUT
i have the same problem which is in my other thread, i cant get the Active username
C:\Documents and Settings\THIS_BIT_HERE\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
to find the user name the guys in the other thread say to use the Getusername() command but to use this i need to include windows.h but with visual C++ it says it doesnt exsist
how to i create a shortcut?
You used to. Like in 1992.heard i have to edit a file called autoexec.bat
lol well theres some old stuff on the internet
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
How do you know that the person running the program would have his OS installed on C?Originally Posted by vart
OS: Windows 7, XUbuntu 11.10, Arch Linux
IDE: CodeBlocks
Compiler: GCC
Indeed. This is never a safe assumption.
Environment variables are the correct answer.
getenv("HOMEPATH") will get you the current user's home directory.
getenv("ALLUSERSPROFILE") will get the All Users directory.
However, I certainly hope you have a good reason for wanting to do this. In general start-up programs are extremely annoying. I know I would be very upset if some program I ran decided that it needed to alter the start-up programs, and this is really way too easy to get away with on Windows.
There is no greater sign that a computing technology is worthless than the association of the word "solution" with it.
You're not the only one, given the subject matter of the first post which got deleted in pretty short order.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
You can make it work like a service.
