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Set app to start at windows startup

Started by Candle , Jan 11 2007 07:20 PM

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Candle

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How can you set the program to start with windows?

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:20 PM

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See FAQ: How do I put my hotkeys and hotstrings into effect automatically every time I start my PC?

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:26 PM

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Yes know how to do it that way. was looking more at doing it from the script it's self if I could.

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:32 PM

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How could the script do anything before it was started? I'm afraid you have to do something outside of AutoHotkey to get it to automatically start. It's not that difficult.

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:39 PM

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You could add startup registry entries.

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:41 PM

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Maybe have a button that sets it in the registry?

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:42 PM

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Why not.

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:45 PM

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Thanks Titan, will look at those links right now.

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:46 PM

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This will force any script to autostart with windows next time, once it has been run:

SplitPath, A_Scriptname, , , , OutNameNoExt 
LinkFile=%A_StartupCommon%\%OutNameNoExt%.lnk 
IfNotExist, %LinkFile% 
  FileCreateShortcut, %A_ScriptFullPath%, %LinkFile% 
SetWorkingDir, %A_ScriptDir%

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:57 PM

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That just put a ahk acript in the allusers programs startup folder name autorun?

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 08:09 PM

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That just put a ahk acript in the allusers programs startup folder name autorun?

It actually puts a shortcut there .. and thats it.
That script should run everytime windows boots up

Edit: Those are the beginning lines.. you should type the rest of the script, ofcourse.

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 08:14 PM

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Candle

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I will just use a registry file to do it with.

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- Posted 11 January 2007 - 08:17 PM

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Putting a link or copying the file itself to the common startup folder -like Skan recommended- is a nice way to do this if you want to allow the user/users to easily remove it, since most users don't even know what the registry is. Then again, you might not want that.

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- Posted 12 January 2007 - 04:24 AM

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Candle

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Well after asking around a little I found that most don't like it done so will not go down that route .

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- Posted 12 January 2007 - 04:31 AM

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I fell upon this forum as I was looking for the same thing. Turns out, if you put your script.ahk file in the "startup" folder it will run automatically. To access the startup folder you need to go to

Computer --> Local Disc (C:) --> Users --> "yourusername" --> AppData (hidden folder) --> Roaming --> Microsoft --> Windows --> Start Menu --> Programs --> Startup

If you paste your script in here, it will run when you log on.

This topic appears to be pretty old so just fyi I'm using Windows 7.

Set app to start at windows startup: post #15

- Posted 19 February 2013 - 08:40 PM

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