Open at Startup - rephrased

[Klaus Major]

Hi Sims,

> Maybe I should rephrase the question...

Oh, sorry for the delay ;-)

> Can I do the following with Windows - if so, how?
>
> WITH A MAC:
>
> If I want to have an app open when I turn on a Mac I can
> make an alias (shortcut) to the app and write it to the
> "Startup Items" folder. When the Mac is turned on, the Rev
> app then automatically opens.
>
> example:
>  put specialFolderPath("System") & "/Startup Items" into prefsLocation
>
> create alias prefsLocation & "/newApp Shortcut" to file tFile
>
> Can I do the above with Windows - if so, how?
>
> sims

there are 2 ways.

The first is to set an entry in the windows-registry, which will cause 
"YourApp"
to launch after windows is started. (Everytime !)

Advantage:
When you place an alias of your app in the windows-startup-item-folder 
(there is one, but i have
no PC at hand to tell you the exact name of that folder, which would be 
solution number 2 tehn ;-)
you can prevent the launching of your app by holding the shift-key while 
windows is starting.
(Yes, the same shortcut as on a mac, funny, isn't it ;-)

With this registry-entry you cannot prevent your app to launch, except 
by setting this reg-entry to empty :-)

The following script is ONLY tested on Win98, so no guarantees for other 
windows-versions !!!
But should work anyway...

on xxx
   ##put the path to "YourApp.exe" into the_app
      replace "/" with "\" in the_app ### we have to speak "windows"
     get 
setregistry("HKEY_local_machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run\YourApp", the_app)
end xxx

To delete that entry again, set the entry to empty.

on xxx
     get 
setregistry("HKEY_local_machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run\YourApp", "")
end xxx

"YourApp" is in this case the name of the registry-entry, which you can 
set to "" (empty).
This way the entry will be deleted.