How to run a program at boot time in W2K

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chrisso

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Hi - I have a Belkin wireless network adapter that I use in a PC that needs to logon to an NT network. Trouble is, the Belkin Wireless Utility program has to run for the wireless connection to become active, and this only happens after I press ctrl-alt-del and attempt a logon, so 1st logon attempt always fails and I am logged on with a local profile. However, once the utility has loaded I can logoff and 2nd logon attempt always succeeds.

Is there a way of making the utility program (it's called bcmwltry.exe) load at boot time so that it is present in memory the very first time I logon?

Thanks,

Chris
 
You could create a new entry in the registry (regedit). This could be mighty risky if you do not know what you are doing.....
However, if you do not feel comfortable messing with the registry (I would not personaly...) you could try and use a program like - Starter

Hope this helps....
 
Can you do that? :ohah:

That is amazing! I did not know......

That is a short way around the houses.... :P
 
Trouble is that programs in the startup folder or in the 'run' parts of the registry don't get to run until after I try to logon to network so the logon fails because the wireless link is still down.

It's seems as if it is only programs that run as services that get to load before logging on and since the utility that brings up the wireless link doesn't run as a service I have to logon twice.
 
Not sure whether this will work, but go to run>cmd and in the console type:

Code: 
sc create "[i]Add a name for service[/i]" binPath="pathofexecutable"
and reboot.
 
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