Screenshots? Moving Files? Make program start with windows?

[Smie]

I would like to have my program, when ran for the first time, move itself to a certain folder (ex. C:\myprog\) and make it so it starts when windows starts, how would i go about doing this?

Also, how would I make my project, with just a click of a button, take a screen shot, and automatically save it (sshot.jpg ect.) Any Clue?


I would really appreciate the help on this one, thank you very much!

[GabitaSoftVB]

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[Edited by James on 09-05-2000 at 05:11 AM]

To create a shortcut:

'In Visual Basic 5.0, change Stkit432.dll in the following
'statement to Vb5stkit.dll.  Stkit432.dll is for Visual Basic 4.0

Private Declare Function fCreateShellLink Lib "STKIT432.DLL" (ByVal
lpstrFolderName As String, ByVal lpstrLinkName As String, ByVal lpstrLinkPath As
String, ByVal lpstrLinkArgs As String) As Long

Dim Short As Long
Short = fCreateShellLink("\Startup", _
"Myprog", "c:\myprog\myprog.exe", "")

[Smie]

thanks matt, and how would i remove it from startup?

thanks a bunch!

Use the Kill statement.

Kill ("C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\myprog.lnk")

[Allen Schoessler]

I have code which captures the screen, but it can only save as a bitmap (not jpg), with the SavePicture statement.

If you are still interested, let me know.

To make your program start when Windows does, add the following entry to the Registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\. For the Value you would enter your Application name (i.e MyApp) and for the Data, you would enter the path to it, i.e C:\MyApp.exe.

[dsy5]

Originally posted by Megatron
To make your program start when Windows does, add the following entry to the Registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\. For the Value you would enter your Application name (i.e MyApp) and for the Data, you would enter the path to it, i.e C:\MyApp.exe.

I've not seen it done this way, Megatron. Perhaps you
forgot to put Run after CurrentVersion?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\.