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[Dmitry]

It seems to me that both A_Startup and A_StartupCommon return the same value, namely:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Is it a bug or my own mistake?
I'm under XP

[mario_a]

On my machine (XP Pro, SP2, AutoHotkey v1.0.35.05) they both return different values :

A_Startup = C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
A_StartupCommon = C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

[TeknoMusicMan]

The only way that they should return the same value is if somehow you magically logged in as "all users" and I'm 99% sure thats not possible.
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[Chris]

I checked the code and these two values are read from the following registry locations:

Common: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Common Startup"
User: HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Startup"

However, I notice that it falls back to the user's startup folder if the RegRead for "common" fails. Perhaps your username lacks permission to query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? If this is what's happening, I will add this info to the help file.

[Dmitry]

Thank you very much!
Actually it was a wrong value in the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Startup"
I don't know how it happened. I did not change anything in registry by my hands. My username have all administrative permission on this computer. Any assumptions?

[Lexikos]

According to an old (though not as old as this thread) blog entry by Raymond Chen, the Shell Folders registry key exists only for backward-compatibility with applications that were written before Windows 95 even came out. If you browse to Shell Folders in HKCU of a recent version of Windows, you may find the following value:

[Chris]

Good to know; thanks.

To be compatible on all OSes, it looks like SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() is the one to use. Unless you or someone else feels like doing it, I've made a note to rewrite the routines for A_Startup, etc.