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tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hello all

When i was reading the other post..I thought of a question which is:

how do you stop people from removing a shortcut from the startup folder? is there a way to make a vds program to put a shortcut in the startup folder? i'am sure you can BUT i bet the vds program has to be run to do this Sad

how can you make it so it check to make sure its in the startup folder?

hard to explain what i'am asking Sad

thanks

Hooligan · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject:

If you don't need to run minimized Wink

, you can run it from the registry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run

Hooligan

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hummm

that would work any way to stop users from del it?

Hooligan · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject:

Unless they were proficient at the registry... Also on win9x/me they might find it with msconfig.exe, if they knew anything about it...

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

yea i wish there was a way to lock it so it can't be deleted...hummmm

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Maybe check and if it's deleted, add the value again.

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

yes but the problem is to do that you would have to run the vds program..if they don't run the vds program for awhile then it won't beable to check....the reason why i'am asking is if someone makes a shareware s/w then could have a reminder that they have to register it...this could be a nice reminder every time they boot pc up Smile

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

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Serge · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:30 am Post subject:

i agree with ff...run a program that sounds like a windows one so the user will not be too happy to stop it from running

the program you need to run you will need to write and does not have to be the real one...this program can check to see if it is set to run from the registry...if not, add the entry to the registry and run it

just a few lines of code should do the trick

the windows 98 se registry entry is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

serge

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

ahhhh good point F.F yea people i bet won't like it Sad

however i just thought of a good trick to play on a friend of mine...heheheheh
(and no i won't be mean) just going to mess with him a bit...heheheh

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

ok i got the reg write working..hehhhhehe

question tho how can i added it to the startup folder tho?

so if ya was going to start--> programs--> startup you will see it there?

thanks

p.s i know this can be done with a installer script but i don't want to uses a install script...how can i have vds copy it to the startup folder?

thanks

Serge · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:04 am Post subject:

tim,

if you add your program to the registry key in my post, then there is no need for you to do anything else as your program will run whenever windows is run...and your user will not see it listed in the startup folder

in others words, adding the entry to the registry key is all you need to do to have it run whenever windows is run

serge

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

Serge

yes i know this is all i needed BUT i'am going to play a joke on a friend of mine that is why i was asking about the startup folder Smile

thanks

Serge · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:46 am Post subject:

hi tim,

ok...adding it to the startup folder is easy...the startup folder is under the windows folder on your hard disk...just add a link into that folder and he will be able to see it in his start-programs-startup

serge