I am making a setup application and I need to know how to properly add a registry key so the application startup with windows. I have made what you can see on the image but I get an error when my PC restarts.This setup is nothing special I just need to make the registry key properly.
View 10 RepliesI took the following method to make a registry key in my setup project. When I run setup, it says Could not write value Run to the key. Verify that you have the sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel. "Below I have copied the code that I took from the forum After you have built your own application project, Right Click the "Solution" to "Add a New Project", of cource the project type is Setup and Deployment Project.
Add the "Project Outputs" into the setup project, here, it can be the your own application,Most of important step: Open the "Regstry" view of the setup project, then add new keys in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" according to the information I just mentioned. Below the key "Run", you can add a new string value. Then in the value's "Properties" view, enter "[TARGETDIR]YourApplicationName.exe" .Install your application using the msi file created by setup project, then restart your computer, you can see the result.
Is there any other way to create a shortcut of an application programmatically or just make the application run every time windows loads up..I got this code of google but I am not too happy with it because it requires some assembly that other users might not have and I get an error when launching this feature on other computer could not load file or assembly interop.IWSHruntimelibrary..[code]
View 11 RepliesI developed an application in Visual Basic 2010 Express which has two features:
1) It is portable and uses some .dlls which must be in the same folder
2) Requires Administrator in order to run
I want my application to run on windows startup. So i created the registry string value and made some tests that gave me the following results:
1) Windows XP -> Runs on startup without any errors
2) Windows 7 Starter -> It simply ignores my application
3) Windows 7 Premium -> The run confirmation box from unknown publisher appeared and when i selected to run, AVG gave a virus warning
4) Windows 8 Consumer Preview -> It simply ignores my application
I am just wondering if you people will be able to help me make my application autload on windows startup (Like Windows Live Messenger does), I have been researching on the internet and I cannot find anything for it.
View 5 RepliesI'm working with an app that starts at OS startup. Is there any way to know if the app was started from system startup or from a manual execution?
My current attempt (won't work):
RegistryKey rkApp = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", true);
rkApp.SetValue("Low CPU Detector /fromStartup",
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I also read this How to detect whether application started from startup or started by user?
How to Add an Application to Windows Startup visual basic 2008?
View 7 RepliesHow can i automatically start a vb.net application on windows startup or load?
View 13 Replieshow can i run a application on windows startup for all user accounts on my computer?
View 3 RepliesI have an application that should run every time when boot windows(xp/vista). I currently added this app to all programs and startup. How can I do in code. Is the best way to use registry and put the key in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoft Windows CurrentVersion Run. It is very important to start every time when windows start.
View 1 RepliesCan I programmatically change the startup form on application launch in VB.Net?
View 2 Repliesi was wondering if i can copy my application to the startup folder in windows when the form loads. The path i want my app to copy to is: C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersStart MenuProgramsStartup
View 1 RepliesI can hide my startup form (or make it appear hidden) on startup. I can start my app on windows startup--through registry values--if the user checks a checkbox.
But if the app starts up on windows startup, I want the form to be hidden, so the program can just keep working without bothering anyone. If it starts up because the user started it, I want the form to be showing, because the user probably wants to change some settings or something.
How to make an Application to startup at the system startup? and How to enable and disable?
View 6 Repliesthis is the code i am using to add my program to registry startup
Public Shared Sub AddStartup(ByVal Name As String, ByVal Path As String)
Dim Registry As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine
Dim Key As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey =
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however, when i deploy the application and install it....it doesnt work because it says "Requested registry access is not allowed", which i figured it would probably do...
im trying to make a vb 2010 program to startup with windows with that is the user choice and i have got this code from the net:
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i havent got a clue on why its opening on the wrong path at startup, but if i close the app and i open it manually by its desktop icon everything is fine again :S
I have a basic three form application. It doesn't seem to close after navigating through forms. If I were to open the application, and the main form is displayed. If I press the X button, the application closes fine(Goes from processes) If I were to open the application, and then navigate from the main form to another form using me.hide & form1.show, and press the red X on Form1, the application again, closes fine.
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I want my application to startup thorugh registry if the specified checkbox1 is checked and to delete it from registry if the checkbox1 is not checked.With the following code im able to create registry but, im unable to delete it.I want it to work like it works for softwares for e.g Utorrent.
Code:
Private Sub CheckBox1_CheckStateChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CheckBox1.CheckStateChanged
If CheckBox1.Checked Then[code]....
I'm quite new to vb.net and I was trying to develope something that can activate/deactivate the Optical reader at startup, so I wrote:
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but obviously it's not that simple, I read I need registry permission not to have access denied to the specified key, I imported the system.security.permission namespace and I tried some constructors but without any results...anyone can point me to the right procedure?
Has anyone got some source code or advice on getting my app to be able to list all autorun items i.e. from HKLM/Software/Microsoft/CurrentVersion/Run (and other locations) and the start menu start up group - same sort of info as say msconfig or autoruns
View 8 Repliesi deleted my previous start up form to be replaced by another one but each time i launch the application,the deleted start up form is still displayed.i dont know from where this deleted start up form is being loaded.
View 3 RepliesWhen I install .net Frame work 2.0 I had this Error when the setup writing system register values RegSvcs.exe-Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b) click OK to terminate the application and i have running an blank application (blank forum) and i running it in the VS 2005 IDE iget this error: windowsapplicatin1.exe-Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b) click OK to terminate the application and i have a program in setup package that i made from 1 week . i have install this program and when i want to run it i had this problem
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My project Developed under Vb2008 and Distrubution package Created by 'Avanced Installer 8.1.1' runs fine in some PCs. But in a specific PC, it produces ApplicationError as 'The application failed to initialize properly (0X0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application." The PC is a standalone Pentium-4 PC with OS windows XP (SP2).
View 2 Repliesi have a program but when i want to run it in VS IDE or out of it i had this Error Application Error: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b). Click on OK to terminate the application.I had made the program by basic language on VS 2005 . net
View 1 RepliesI am working on moving applications from Windows 2000 to new server Windows 2003 R2(64 Bit). I noticed that there are some VB programs and config files for those programs have been placed in Windows 2000 Registry. Some other applications are using them from different servers.Why do we use registry here? How can i move these to registry in windows 2003? Can I just move these or do I have to write VB programs to place them in 2003 registry?
View 1 RepliesI have created a calendar in VB which works fine when set to the startup form, but when I use the MdiParent form as the startup form and try to display the calendar by use of a control it just shows all the buttons and labels with no values assigned to them. Its almost as if the Calendar_Load event is not working, or not accessing the methods in my CalendarClass.
View 2 RepliesI've written a small program to open at startup, but I want to give the user the ability to delete it from showing on startup by clicking a button.But it needs to be compatible on XP, Vista and Windows 7. Is there a line of code which will get the default startup folder path automatically so I can then delete it using my button?
View 1 RepliesI'm havin a problem ive looked all over the net looking for an example of how to make my vb application run at startup by registry but i cannot find an example or how to do this that has actually worked for me
View 12 RepliesMy VB app will not work properly on a Windows 7 64 bit PC.When I launched it on the Win7 PC it will open up OK but when I open a crystal report, the form page comes up ok but the report is missing.Then I get a pop up window asking me for a user name an PW:
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Im having difficulties with thins one things >.<
im tryin to make a application that could disable 2 services when when i run the application. so it would change it from say running automatically to disable. i have a lot of computers i have to administer, and i dont feel like goin one by one doing. Nd ima need radio buttons because a few machines are w7 and others r xp nd they each got diffrent services that have to be disabled.