Newbie question: getting my program to run at startup on Windows

[Arjan Dikhoff]

Hello, I'm new to this list.

I'm trying to get my program to run automatically at startup, but so far
no luck. I came as far as:

key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run")

_winreg.SetValueEx(key, "earthclock", 0, _winreg.REG_SZ, os.getcwdu() +
"\\EarthClock.exe")
_winreg.CloseKey(key)

But I get "WindowsError: [Errno 5] Access is denied"

I'm probably doing something blatantly wrong. Does anyone know what it
is?

Arjan

 

[Mark Hammond]

Hello, I'm new to this list.

I'm trying to get my program to run automatically at startup, but so far
no luck. I came as far as:

key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run")

_winreg.SetValueEx(key, "earthclock", 0, _winreg.REG_SZ, os.getcwdu() +
"\\EarthClock.exe")
_winreg.CloseKey(key)

But I get "WindowsError: [Errno 5] Access is denied"

I'm probably doing something blatantly wrong. Does anyone know what it
is?

Keys are opened with 'read' access by default. Use:
key =
_winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run",
0, _winreg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)

And it works fine.

Mark.

 

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Arjan,

key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run")

_winreg.SetValueEx(key, "earthclock", 0, _winreg.REG_SZ, os.getcwdu() +
"\\EarthClock.exe")
_winreg.CloseKey(key)

But I get "WindowsError: [Errno 5] Access is denied"

I'm probably doing something blatantly wrong. Does anyone know what it
is?

As the docs say, the default access mask for OpenKey is KEY_READ. Try:
key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run",
sam=_winreg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)

HTH.
Miki