start applications automatically on machine restart

Post by **martin@rootjazz** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:16 pm

If you want any application to start up automatically when you restart your machine, you can use a batch file

Right click where you want the file and select
NEW > TEXT FILE

Then change the name to
whatever-you-want.bat

You will need to make sure you have not hidden file extensions for known types, so if you didn't see .txt, you need to turn that on.

In an explorer window, TOOLS > FOLDER OPTIONS > VIEW > show extensions for known types

If you cannot see tools menu, then you need to turn on the menu bar

anyway, in the batch file, open it in notepad and enter the path of the files to start

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START C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\programs\Scm\SoundcloudManager.exe

NOTE if you have spaces in the path, you must use ""

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START "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Soundcloud Manager\SoundcloudManager.exe"

NOTE, you must have the preceeding "" then the path "c:\path\to\file.exe"

If you want to run custom db instances, you can enter the custom name as such

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START "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Soundcloud Manager\SoundcloudManager.exe custom"

where custom is the custom db name you are using

Now, we need to tell WIndows top run this batch file on start up, so right click the file, select create shortcut. Now go
Start / windows button
All programs
Start up

and move the shortcut to the startup folder.

Now when windows starts your batch file will be run and any instructions in your batch file will be run.

example batch file

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START "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Soundcloud Manager\SoundcloudManager.exe custom"
START "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Soundcloud Manager\SoundcloudManager.exe services"
START "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Soundcloud Manager\SoundcloudManager.exe myband"
START "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tumbling jazz\Tumbling jazz.exe"
START "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mixcloud funked\Mixcloud funked.exe"

Don't forget to set the processing tab to AUTO RUN, and the programs will start processing as soon as they are loaded