Re: [WiX-users] specifying an installed executable to be run at boot time

2015-05-10 Thread Mark Farnell
Thx! I wish to run my executable as a service, so I better read the page pointed by Nir On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Phil Wilson phildgwil...@gmail.com wrote: You may need to be clear about whether you mean boot time or interactive user logon time. The contents of the registry's Run-type

Re: [WiX-users] specifying an installed executable to be run at boot time

2015-05-07 Thread Rob Mensching
Or run it from the per-machine Run key to be elevated. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Nir Bar [mailto:nir@panel-sw.com] Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015

Re: [WiX-users] specifying an installed executable to be run at boot time

2015-05-07 Thread Nir Bar
Running an executable at boot can be done with the registry Run key https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376977(v=vs.85).aspx . If you need it to run with elevation you can run it as a Windows service

Re: [WiX-users] specifying an installed executable to be run at boot time

2015-05-07 Thread Phil Wilson
You may need to be clear about whether you mean boot time or interactive user logon time. The contents of the registry's Run-type keys don't run at boot time - they run at log on time. If you literally want boot time you may be able to do it with a Task Scheduler entry, but arguably the usual way

[WiX-users] specifying an installed executable to be run at boot time

2015-05-06 Thread Mark Farnell
Hi, I am asked to package a piece of software which consists an executable and a DLL file. However suppose if I want the executable to be run automatically at boot time, how can I specify this? Actually the program opens a web socket. How can I run it at boot time as an administrator without