Registry keys

Hi. I downloaded an email app canary mail. I could not get it to run at bootup so I manualy created a registry key.

Value Name: Canary
Value data: C:\Program Files\Canary Mail\Canary.exe

I decided to export the registry in case I needed it later. What I got was more than I expected. Is all this nessessary?

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

"SecurityHealth"=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,\
73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,53,00,65,00,63,00,75,\
00,72,00,69,00,74,00,79,00,48,00,65,00,61,00,6c,00,74,00,68,00,53,00,79,00,\
73,00,74,00,72,00,61,00,79,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,00,00
"AVGUI.exe"="\"C:\\Program Files\\AVG\\Antivirus\\AvLaunch.exe\" /gui"
"Canary"="C:\\Program Files\\Canary Mail\\Canary.exe"

Could it not be simply...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
“C:\Program Files\\Canary Mail\\Canary.exe"

The Run key makes the program run every time the user logs on

here is yours

Sorry. Didn't realise that was the entire content of Run. My entry is only
"Canary"="C:\\Program Files\\Canary Mail\\Canary.exe"

So all i need is to add it with
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Canary"="C:\\Program Files\\Canary Mail\\Canary.exe"

Is that correct? Or will it remove the other keys?

it wont remove the others

Pablo56 said:

Could it not be simply...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
“C:\Program Files\\Canary Mail\\Canary.exe"

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You need to keep the initial line that was in your export .reg file
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
and a second, blank line used to be compulsory as well,
so your .reg file would be
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"C:\\Program Files\\Canary Mail\\Canary.exe"

Check that your quotation marks are the standard ones, as shown in my recommended syntax.
Your post included
“C
which was probably changed by the word processor you read the file in.
Curly quotation marks such as that have historically not been accepted in .reg files, cmd prompt windows, ...

You also dropped a \ that I have corrected for.


Denis

Yes that is what I have done. You seem to need \\ as a C++ escape charecter sequence.

I also noticed an extra \ at the start of an AVG one = \"C:\\...
"AVGUI.exe"="\"C:\\Program Files\\AVG\\Antivirus\\AvLaunch.exe\" /gui"
and it needs a "Canary"= to asign the key name.

Pablo56 said:

I also noticed an extra \ at the start of an AVG one

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Yes, that's because it has to cope with a space in the path. It's to escape the " that is needed.

Your Canary does not have a space in its path so it does not need that extra \ at the start.


Denis

Pablo56 said:

I downloaded an email app canary mail. I could not get it to run at bootup so I manualy created a registry key.

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Just as an FYI, you don't have to create a registry entry to run a program on login. You can simply create a shortcut to the exe (Canary.exe in this case) and drop that shortcut into your Startup folder. You can find the Startup folder by entering shell:startup in the Run box.

Ok thanks shell:startup dosn't work in the run (W11) but startup does/ shell:startup brings up a web browser.

you can also browse to “shell:startup” in explorer (by typing it into the top address bar) and drop any shortcuts you want to launch during startup there

Pablo56 said:

Ok thanks shell:startup dosn't work in the run (W11) but startup does/ shell:startup brings up a web browser.

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I think you typed the command into the taskbar Search box instead of the Run box.

To get to the Run box, right-click the Windows icon and select Run or press ⊞+R.