There are a number of ways to do this: 1) add a shortcut to the "Startup start menu folder 2) add registry entries to various places like * [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] * see here for some other locations: http://www.doshelp.com/HowToView/Registry_Keys.htm 3) make it a service and set it to "Automatic" (probably more work than you want to do) 4) There are other more esoteric ways, but I think the above probably covers anything you are likely to want to do.
Kevin Horn On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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