Making an on start program!

[DyroZang]

Hello, I am looking to make a program that runs on the startup of my computer. I don't know how to do this, as in whether it would be coded in cmd prompt or what. However if someone could give me basic guidance in making a program that would run the second my computer starts up or if that's even possible?

[Enderman]

You can make any program start when your computer turns on.

It does not need to be coded in any special way.

[Macimoar]

Just copy a shortcut of the program into your startup folder. It should work just fine.

[Guest]

24 minutes ago, DyroZang said:

Hello, I am looking to make a program that runs on the startup of my computer. I don't know how to do this, as in whether it would be coded in cmd prompt or what. However if someone could give me basic guidance in making a program that would run the second my computer starts up or if that's even possible?

Either copy paste like @Macimoar said or create a new Task Scheduler

[Pinguinsan]

Assuming you're on Windows (from talking about cmd.exe), it's very easy to make a program run on startup. The only requirement for a program to run on startup is that it is a valid Windows executable, or calls a valid Windows executable. For example, let's say you wanted an instance of Firefox to start everytime you log into Windows. On Windows 7 and above, you'd first navigate to your Firefox exe (C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe on my system). Then, right click and create a shortcut to firefox.exe (it may tell you that you can't make one in the current directory, and ask if you want to make it on the desktop instead, that's fine). Then, move the shortcut to the startup directory. This will be located in your home directory, inside of a hidden directory. So assuming your username is bob, move the shortcut to C:\Users\bob\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\. Any .exe file in this directory will be run when that user logs in. It's that simple.