Automatically starting a program in XP without showing the desktop

[dynomyte]

Hello, This is my first post here and I am hoping someone can help me. I work for a Point of Sale Company. Our software runs on Windows Embedded for Point of Sale (WEPOS). I am looking for a way to have our application run upon startup without it showing the desktop so that the user doesn't know that they are working on a Windows machine. Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Dynomyte

 

[BruceMR]

have a look at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell

and change explorer.exe to your program.

see here..

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/143164

 

[dynomyte]

That would work, but the software that I run needs the components of .NET 3.5 so I need that to run too. U have tried a couple different things but still can't get it to work I think what I am going to have to do is write a script of some sort to load up all of the components that I need then run the software. Unless anyone can think of a better way of doing it

Thanks again

 

[Trevoke]

Have you tried what BruceMR suggested? I know about this solution but have never tried it. I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't load .NET 3.5 ... And I'd like to know for sure that it doesn't.

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[dynomyte]

I did try that. The unit did not boot into our software. I even went so far as to moving a shortcut to c:\windows and then called the shortcut and it still didn't work

 

[linney]

Maybe you have to enter the full path of your .exe, not just the program name in the Registry?

Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 1
Different Shells for Different Users

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms838576(WinEmbedded.5).aspx

 

[Trevoke]

I wonder what the Event Log would say about that.

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