Auto start application

If you're talking about an application with a user interface (e.g. WinForms or Console), you can't.
You can only start these when a user logs in. To achieve this, you can create a shortcut in the startup folder. In Win7, click the start-button, select all programs, find the startup folder, right click and choose and select open. An explorer window will open where you can create a shortcut (or drop an existing one).
In Win7, the directory is C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

The only applications that can be started when the computer (re)starts are services. I do not think that you would have asked this question if you were talking about a service ;-)

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Selva Ganapathy11y ago
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Hi Jegan Priya,

Check this
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/run-program-automatically-windows-starts#1TC=windows-7
Regards,
Selva Ganapathy K
Wim Sturkenboom11y ago
If you're talking about an application with a user interface (e.g. WinForms or Console), you can't.
You can only start these when a user logs in. To achieve this, you can create a shortcut in the startup folder. In Win7, click the start-button, select all programs, find the startup folder, right click and choose and select open. An explorer window will open where you can create a shortcut (or drop an existing one).
In Win7, the directory is C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

The only applications that can be started when the computer (re)starts are services. I do not think that you would have asked this question if you were talking about a service ;-)