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Short story: Startup automatically -- with machine or at login, once or always -- by making appropriate registry entries.
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This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):
- Run on Reboot, Ask the VB Pro, VBPJ, March 1999
This sample uses the following API calls:
Module Library Function CRegSettings.cls advapi32 RegCloseKey
RegCreateKeyEx
RegDeleteKey
RegDeleteValue
RegOpenKeyEx
RegQueryValueEx
RegSetValueExMRunOnce.bas advapi32 RegCloseKey
RegCreateKeyEx
RegSetValueExDon't see what you're looking for? Here's a complete API cross-reference.
Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution. Download RunOnce.zip, 12Kb, Last Updated: Monday, November 30, 1998