On Friday, 8 February 2013 at 15:08:06 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 8 February 2013 at 15:06:24 UTC, SaltySugar wrote:
How to run my program when computer starts?
This question is irrelevant to D and is operating system
specific. It is better suited for stackoverflow & Co.
If you want D to become popular, that's not an appropiate answer
in the d.learn section. I'm sure that if someone will ask the
same thing in the C# section of MSDN will obtain an answer, not a
redirect to an external forum.
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To run at startup for all users, the most used way for a program
to do this is to create a string value in the following registry
keys:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
Version\Run if the program will run every time.
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
Version\RunOnce if the program will run once.
In D, this will look like this:
import std.windows.registry;
void runMeAtStartupEveryTime(string exeName)
{
auto key =
Registry.localMachine.getKey(`SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run`,
REGSAM.KEY_SET_VALUE);
key.setValue("runme", exeName);
}
int main(string[] args)
{
runMeAtStartupEveryTime(args[0]);
return 0;
}
Of course, you must have the appropriate rights to do this. This
approach is Windows specific, I don't have any hint about another
OS.
