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