John Bunting wrote:
I've been having some trouble finding information on how to add an exe that I have created to the startup of my windows box. I would like to know how I should go about adding the exe to the startup menu, without using the gui interface. I want to be able to automate this because I'm also going to be giving out some of this code to different users and I don't want to have to have them manually add the exe.
The startup menu is basically a folder which you can put shortcuts into in the normal way. For simplicity's sake, I recommend using (my) winshell module: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/winshell.html but it's only a very simple wrapper around the pywin32 extensions so you might prefer to roll your own. At least you can look at the source. The following code will do what you want (assuming you want Python to start up automatically!) <code> import os, sys import winshell startup = winshell.startup () # use common=1 for all users print startup winshell.CreateShortcut ( Path=os.path.join (winshell.startup (), "Python.lnk"), Target=sys.executable, Icon=(sys.executable, 0), Description="Python" ) </code> TJG _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
