Windows 7 startup applications

[ayu]

Have I missed something new with Windows 7?

When I try to add one of my applications to

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software /Microsoft / Windows / Current_version / run

in the registry, it gets added and look ok (I even checked the path, which is C:/program files/appfolder/appname.exe), but when I restart the computer, the application does not get started. Does it have anything to do with privileges maybe?

The Windows 7 "sidebar" is in Program Files as well, and is also in the same part of the registry, and the sidebar gets started when I restart the machine, and yet my little app wont.

Anyone have a clue?
Maybe someone with Windows 7 can give it a test run and help me out?

Thanks in advance!

[bad_brain]

hm, go to start->run and enter shell:startup , then look if you app is listed....if not drag&drop it in there....at least that's how I do it, and it works well for me..

[ayu]

hm, go to start->run and enter shell:startup , then look if you app is listed....if not drag&drop it in there....at least that's how I do it, and it works well for me..

hmm yeah that usually works as well, so maybe that will work as a backup solution

But this is for some naughty code I am writing, so want to get it to work by manipulating the registry.
Will do some more experimenting on this.

[ayu]

EDIT!

THIS POST IS WRONG!

Found the problem now

Watch and learn boys and girls!

Does not work

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C:\Program Files (x86)\AdobeUpdaterSys\AdobeUpdater.exe

Works!

"C:\Program Files (x86)\AdobeUpdaterSys\AdobeUpdater.exe"

And here's the funniest part!
This works!

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C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /autoRun

Maybe it's because Windows favors its own programs?
Either way, use quotes.

[lilrofl]

lol, that's good to know, good work!

[ayu]

lol, that's good to know, good work!

oooook ... I did some more testing and it didn't work after all.
I did some digging to find the problem, and eventually I found it when looking at the bytes that my application was saving to the registry.

When my application was saving the string to the registry, it didn't include the null byte at the end of the string, thus the string in the registry became completely fucked up.
The reason I didn't see this is because the registry editor in Windows only showed me the readable characters, so to me it looked alright.
And when I added the value manually with the registry editor, it looked the same to me, when in reality it added a correct null terminated string.

So, lesson learned from this?

Always check your bytes

[.stac]

cool