Hi all, I am looking to develop a program that starts when windows boots up. All I want it to do is to check for the time of the day (based on the clock of the machine) and then kick off a set of procedures accordingly. I know is dead easy to create a VB program that after execution will do just that however the machine it is going to run on is hardly ever accessed by people so I would really want it to be running independently everytime the machine is switched on. The problem: I have never done anything like that before and I would really appreciate a nudge to the right direction. BTW I am coding in VB. Many thanks TheGreek

You would want to start it as a service. There is a small tool that can start every .exe as service, but I forgot the name.

SRVANY maybe, have a look at the RESKIT (ask your local admin).

Hi jens, thanks mate your initial suggestion was more than enough. apparently its all a case of making a registry entry under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" pointing to the executable you want and the program will start as a service. Hi all, Any other ways of making a program boot and appear on the bottom right hand side of the screen as other professional software does? many thanks TheGreek

I have used this product and it is fantastic. It will stabalize and program that has to run all the time. I have no idea why Services are more stable, but they are.http://www.basta.com/ProdAppToService.htm