by EvilD (3 Submissions)
Category: Registry
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Tue 11th November 2008
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Make exe run on startup of windows
API Declarations
Public Declare Function RegOpenKeyEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegOpenKeyExA" (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, ByVal ulOptions As Long, ByVal samDesired As Long, phkResult As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal hKey As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function RegCreateKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegCreateKeyA" (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function RegDeleteKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegDeleteKeyA" (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String) As Long
Public Declare Function RegDeleteValue Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegDeleteValueA" (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String) As Long
Public Declare Function RegOpenKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegOpenKeyA" (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function RegQueryValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegQueryValueExA" (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String, ByVal lpReserved As Long, lpType As Long, lpData As Any, lpcbData As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegSetValueExA" (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String, ByVal Reserved As Long, ByVal dwType As Long, lpData As Any, ByVal cbData As Long) As Long
Public Const REG_SZ = 1 ' Unicode nul terminated String
Public Const REG_DWORD = 4 ' 32-bit number
Public Const HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = &H80000000
Public Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
Public Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
Public Const HKEY_USERS = &H80000003
Public Const HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA = &H80000004
Public Const ERROR_SUCCESS = 0&
Public Const KEY_WRITE = &H20006
VBcoders
'reg path
subkey = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
retval = RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, subkey, 0, KEY_WRITE, hregkey)
If retval <> 0 Then
Debug.Print "Can't open the subkey"
Exit Sub
End If
stringbuffer = App.Path & "\" & App.EXEName & ".exe" & vbNullChar
retval = RegSetValueEx(hregkey, "My App", 0, REG_SZ, ByVal stringbuffer, Len(stringbuffer))
RegCloseKey hregkey
