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How to make a program start at windows startup:
How to make a program start at windows start-up:
Run - These are the most common start-up locations for programs to install auto start from. By default these keys are not executed in Safe mode. If you prefix the value of these keys with an asterisk, *, it will run in Safe Mode.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (this entry may have to be created completely it will run the program for all users of the computer)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (this entry should already be there as the currentuser of the machine no creation necessary)
Start by typing "regedit" in the start menu search bar and hit return. Then navigate to the following entry. All are work is going to be done in the right-side of the registry editor window.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run is the location that I want to put in my registry entry for my program that I want to start at windows start-up. I want to put speed-fan in my registry star-up since it doesn't have an auto run entry selection in the program options.
So I navigate to where speed-fan was installed and copy the address of it by right clicking on the address bar and select "copy address as text".
Right click this address line and "Copy address as text"
Then I swing back to registry editor and create a New String Value and name it Speed-Fan.
Then right click on the New String Value and paste the address of the speed-fan executable in the Value data line like in the screen shot. Type in the name of the executable like below then click "OK".
Remember you'll have some typing to do. You'll have to type the name of the executable since copy and paste of the address wont pick that up.
Your done.
In the screenshots you don't need the " in front of the entry.
To undo just delete the string value that you created.
Seth
Last edited by seth500; 15 Aug 2011 at 19:52.