I am planning to start my application whenever the user starts the computer. ASFA I know, there are two options available to me:
put the application link to startup folder
Keep a the startup-registry location updated with application path
However, the problem is, AVs like Kasperesky reports the registry paths (if added by an app) as keyloggers. Just wanted to hear from you people, which is better? Adding a shortcut to startup folder or using the registry way.
I really would prefer that you didn't force my app to start whenever I reboot. So, if you really insist, then please put it in the Startup folder and don't hide it in the Windows registry where I will never be able to find it. There may be times when I need this thing not to start up every time, so please let me do the choosing by putting the shortcut where I can see it and manage it. Otherwise, if it gives me too much trouble, I may just start up Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs, and you really don't want that, do you?
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How does one run Google Keep or other websites like an app or kiosk on a Windows PC.
Since I figured this out and nobody seems to of had a response, I made my own question and answered it. Credit to OurCodeWorld for helping figure out some of the fine tuning. He had a --chrome-frame flag, but I believe that is depreciated, so I am looking into it. But it seems to work fine without it
TLDR: Create a shortcut to chrome and add --app= this to the end of it. like this --app=https://keep.google.com/u/0/.
Now if you want it to have a specific size window? Well, you will have to add --window-size=WIDTH,LENGTH. But... Chrome saves the size of the last window closed, which If you use Chrome as a browser, this will change frequently. To solve this, we create a separate user-data directory --user-data-dir="C:\ExampleDir". This folder is around 50mb of who knows what...
So the whole thing put together, like this.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir="%localappdata%\GoogleKeep\User Data" --window-size=950,1000 --app=https://keep.google.com/u/0/
I am using Windows 10 and whenever I try to copy paste some content in any folder, my system refreshes (reloaded) and file explorer window closed without executing the copy-pasting task. On right click on any folder, also refreshes the system and nothing happens.
To my knowledge, some Microsoft service is causing this issue, don't know which service. Any leads, please?
I tried to run the system on safe mode with basic services and it works fine. On the other hand, when I disable all the 3rd party services and restart the system with only Microsoft's services, the same issue again. that means there is some Microsft services which are causing the issue.
try to run Windows on safe mode, and enable one by one each service, spaced by tests, and if your poblem occur after enabling a service, I think you would find out wich service is causing your problem
And then, Google "(service name) problem copy paste Windows 10" and see if others have this problem
hope it help
Just out of curiosity I was wondering how this is done. I know you can probably manually make a program startup using windows scheduler, but for something download from the interwebs, such as Discord, how does it autonomously give itself the ability to run on startup without actually being in the startup folder?
I found the answer elsewhere on this site, here is the link and a quote
https://stackoverflow.com/a/20781275/9546874
Add a new startup application Open your registry and find the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run].
For each program you want to start automatically create a new string value using a descriptive name, and set the value of the string to the program executable.
For example, to automatically start Notepad, add a new entry of "Notepad"="c:\windows\notepad.exe".
Some applications do not appear in the startup folder but start up automatically anyway. Programmers have the ability to disable their application showing up in the startup folder. To answer your question, it's a decision made by the dev team behind the application.
Here is a link to disable those applications using the shell: Disable items not in the Startup folder
This article goes into depth about how windows uses registry keys to open applications upon startup.
If you would like to disable discord's auto startup, this is how.
I have a program that was written on XP. What I've found out is that it doesn't work properly on Win7 because HLKM is no longer writable by non-admins.
Essentially, when you register the program, the licensing information is supposed to go into the registry. That information is valid for everyone on the computer, not just the one user, so I don't want to put it in HKCU. But any copy of the program needs to be able to edit that registry (even if it's a non-admin running it), because there are certain situations when it's going to go get updated license information from my web server (for example, if the registry data is lost or damaged, or if your current license is expired and it needs to see if we've applied an extension).
It's not horrible if it goes out to the web server for every unique user who starts up the program, but it causes some annoying issues, so I'd rather it continue to work the way it did in XP. Is there a way to store data in the registry and still have it shared under Win7, or am I going to have to start looking at storing an INI file on the drive?
Here is how I would architect it: your setup runs elevated and sets up the key. Then if their licensing gets corrupted or whatnot, you enable a button or menu item that has text like "fix license" or "update license". You put a shield on that button or menu item. When they click it, you launch a separate exe using ShellExecute. That exe has a manifest that requires elevation. It can then write to the protected area of the registry. The rest of the app can have a manifest with asInvoker.
If you want it to be completely invisible, either the whole app must always run elevated (annoying) or sometimes the app will just launch another exe that asks for elevation without warning - in which case the smart users will say no. A little less invisibility is a good thing imo.
Could you get the installer to make your particular area of the registry to be writeable by everyone? The installer will need to be run with elevated privileges anyway, I'd expect - so this would seem an ideal approach.
When debugging in Xcode, how do I simulate a user starting my Cocoa droplet application by dropping one or more files onto it's application icon?
The app just opens, processes the files while displaying it's progress and then closes again.
Passing arguments (via the "Arguments" tab of the entry under "Executables") should allow this, but I could not find out how.
What I really want is to hit "Build and Go" and then have the droplet open with whatever files I need.
A last resort would be to use AppleScript or the "open" command on the command line to achieve this. I want to streamline this as much as possible.
Thanks for any pointers!
Add each absolute path to a file you want to open with the application as an argument. You may need to wrap each one in quotation marks (which shouldn't be necessary, and is a bug if it is, but I do remember needing to do).
You should be able to use variable references like $SRCROOT in order to refer to files within the project root directory.