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Adding a program to run at Windows start up


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Hallo World!

I'm very novice to programming and AutiIt is my first language!

As a good scholar, I have studied "LEARNING_TO_SCRIPT_with_AutoIt_V3__Last_Updated_14_Apr_2009_" and bought and studied "AutoIt_v3_Your_Quick_Guide".

I have understood not much but...

I started to make a (working) script, using some advice from the forum too. It is not very elegant because it uses a big number of mouse movement and click (I would try to learn how to use the ID control of the window but I don't know where to start to learn something about this).

But now I'm working on my second script, that is the installation script of the other script, and I can't find something to add in a single command the instruction to RUN THE PROGRAM AT WINDOWS START UP. How can I do this (in a very simple way please!)?

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Many Thanks!

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Add the script you want to start when windows starts to the start menu "startup" folder.

That is the easiest and fastest way to start when windows does.

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it depends on who you want the program to start for.

all users use @StartupCommonDir

current user only use @StartupDir

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Lol, use the mouse to move it into the startup folder? That'd be a hassel. Look in the AutoIt help file, and look under File, Directory and Disk Managment, and look for stuff like FileCreateShortcut() to make a short cut in the @StartupCommonDir or @StartupDir.

FileCreateShortcut("Program.exe", @StartupDir & "\Program.ink")

I believe that's the right usage of that, never used it before. Try it

Edit: Syntax fix

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