Introduction
Sometimes you want to make you application run everytime Windows starts up. One approach is to develop a service, but it will
work just in NT or 2K boxes. To make it happen in Win95/98 boxes is necessary to change the registry settings.
The registry key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run to all users and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run to the current user.
To make this task easier I wrote a wrapper class (CWinStartup) that adds and removes applications from the startup
bool AddApp(HINSTANCE hInst, LPCTSTR lpszName, StartupUser user) |
Add an app to the startup through the HINSTANCE |
bool AddApp(LPCTSTR lpszName, LPCTSTR lpszPath, StartupUser user) |
Add the app according to the path defined |
bool RemoveApp(LPCTSTR lpszName, StartupUser user) |
Removes the app from the registry |
All the methods are static. This class has been tested on Win2K boxes only, but as far as I'm concerned
it works in all Windows versions.
