Start program on starup in c#

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I want to start my application on start up of windows.
For that i have used
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry value
and it worked correct.

But now i want to set the registry value from c# code
but i cann't edit or add new value in registry programtically.
can u say how to do this???

Posted 1-Jan-13 2:11am

Hetal Jariwala

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H.Brydon · Answer 1 · 2013-01-02T06:06:00

Solution 3

If you are trying to write to HKLM, make sure that you have admin privileges. If not the registry write attempt will fail. I suspect that you are manually adding the value from one (admin) username and trying to run your program from another (non-admin) username.

Posted 2-Jan-13 6:06am

H.Brydon

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Hetal Jariwala 2-Jan-13 23:10pm

I have done it manually and it worked perfectly.
But when i'm trying to do this from c# it is not changing at all.

H.Brydon 3-Jan-13 0:00am

Reading or writing anything in the registry from code requires multiple steps. Each of these steps gives you a return code. Make sure you look at every return code and make sure you have success at each step.

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2013-01-02T06:12:00

Solution 4

You can add a shortcut of the program to the startup folder in the start menu, that should start your program everytime you start the OS.

Posted 2-Jan-13 6:12am

Abhinav S

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Hetal Jariwala 2-Jan-13 23:09pm

But by that way operator can easily remove program from startup

Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 3 · 2013-01-01T02:21:00

Solution 1

You need to use the resgitry class to access (read or write) registry values.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5f1xf5kf.aspx[^]

Look at this article to get a heads up:

http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/csharp-snippet-tutorial-editing-the-windows-registry[^]

Posted 1-Jan-13 2:21am

Manas Bhardwaj

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Hetal Jariwala 2-Jan-13 3:20am

I have written this way but i cann't access the LOCAL_MACHINE assembly....

Hetal Jariwala 2-Jan-13 3:20am

How to solve this??

Thomas Daniels · Answer 4 · 2013-01-01T02:41:00

Solution 2

Hi,

Here you read how to read, write and delete from registry:
Read, write and delete from registry with C#[^]
Another way to start an application automatically, is to create a shortcut to your application in the Startup folder:
Run C# application on user logon (Windows Forms)[^]

Posted 1-Jan-13 2:41am

Thomas Daniels

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Hetal Jariwala 2-Jan-13 3:20am

I have written this way but i cann't access the LOCAL_MACHINE assembly....

Hetal Jariwala 2-Jan-13 3:20am

How to solve this??