Run on Startup

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:13:32 -0300, Mike Driscoll <kyosohma at gmail.com>  
escribió:
> On Mar 18, 1:09 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
> wrote:
>> En Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:16:53 -0200, MRAB <goo... at mrabarnett.plus.com>  
>> escribió:
>> > Ian Mallett wrote:

>> >>  I'd like to make a program that automatically runs on startup  
>> (right  
>> >> after login).  How should I do that?
>>
>> > Put it in the folder:
>>
>> > C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
>>
>> Please don't do that, if you care about your users at all, and any of  
>> them  
>> might use a non-English version of Windows. Programs that put anything  
>> in  
>> the above location (or install themselves into C:\Program Files, or  
>> things  
>> like that) are really annoying, and the author is plain stupid.
>
> How is putting your program in "C:\Program Files" stupid? Almost every
> program I've ever installed on Windows defaults to that location.

In my PC, almost every program I've ever installed on Windows defaults to  
"C:\Archivos de Programa" instead -- see the difference?

Writing an installer (*and* uninstaller!) that does the right thing isn't  
trivial. Application developers usually can't master all the details  
involved - a "quick and dirty" installer just doesn't work well except in  
the developer's own environment (many things may change: OS version,  
system language, locale, user customization, user permissions, network  
environment...)
I let the experts do the hard work for me - I use InnoSetup (there are  
many other alternatives)

-- 
Gabriel Genellina