Put shortcut to program in startup menu.

[Packrat]

I want to make a screen where the person has a choice on whether they want the program they are installing to automatically start when windows boots. I am using the radio button script and on the "Yes" Variable I am using %Startup% and then %appdir%myprogram.exe but it will not work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.

[Darryl]

Re: Put shortcut to program in startup menu.

It sounds like you are doing everything correctly. I'm assuming that you have a "Create Shortcut" action on one of your Actions tabs such as "On Shutdown" that looks something like the following:

Folder:
%Startup% (or %StartupNT%)

Shortcut Description:
My Application shortcut

Target File:
%AppDir%\myprogram.exe

Is this exactly what you have?
Check the startup folder on the system. Is there any shortcut created?
Perhaps is the path to the file wrong?
Was any error returned when creating the shortcut? Make sure you have error messaging turned on in the action's ON ERROR tab.
What OS are you testing on?

[Packrat]

Re: Put shortcut to program in startup menu.

Yeah I have %Startup%\myprogram.exe

No shortcut was created in the startup menu and no errors.

I am using WinXP pro.

Thanks for the reply.