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Muhammad Faizan Khan
Muhammad Faizan Khan

Reputation: 10561

Run unity player exe at windows startup automatically

As i have only unity build in exe format how can i put it to the startup of my window so that it run automatically when computer becomes start. Remember I don't want to put it manually is there any scripting ref available to do this or else auto solution?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2114

Answers (3)

Muhammad Faizan Khan
Muhammad Faizan Khan

Reputation: 10561

I want to give my end user an elegant and efficient way to add my exe to Windows startup and here i have managed to provide him batch file in the directory of my exe.

@echo off
Rem This Summary: This batch script will use to add current directories exe file into windows startup folder.
Rem It will work as follow
Rem 1. First search the exe file in the parent directory of this batch file (only one exe should be available next to batch file)
Rem 2. Make its shortcut
Rem 3. paste in sLinkFile(variable name of the location)

set "SCRIPT=%TEMP%\%RANDOM%-%RANDOM%-%RANDOM%-%RANDOM%.vbs"

::Retriving full path of the .exe which is located in the parent directoy of the batch file(next to batch file)
for %%F in ("%~dp0*.exe") do set "EXEFILE=%%~fF"

> "%SCRIPT%" (
    echo Set oWS = WScript.CreateObject^("WScript.Shell"^)

    Rem Getting the startup path of the current user
    echo sLinkFile = "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Player.lnk"

    Rem creating shortcut
    echo Set oLink = oWS.CreateShortcut^(sLinkFile^)

    Rem target path alread extracted in line 11
    echo oLink.TargetPath = "%EXEFILE%"

    Rem save the shortcut
    echo oLink.Save
)

cscript //NoLogo "%SCRIPT%"
del "%SCRIPT%"

This file will be placed next to my player build and as user will run this batch file a shortcut of my exe will create automatically and added to the startup. So there is no manual work require just a batch file has to run.

Upvotes: 0

Pepernoot
Pepernoot

Reputation: 3629

You can add your application to startup with registry https://stackoverflow.com/a/14280290/6720987

You can also place it in the windows startup folder

   string startupFolder = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup);
        if (Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() != startupFolder)
        {
            string path = Path.Combine(startupFolder, "MyFile.exe");
            string ownPath = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
            if (File.Exists(path))
            {
                File.Delete(path);
            }
            File.Copy(ownPath, path);
        }

Beware that almost every virus scanner with see this as malicious

Upvotes: 1

Bizhan
Bizhan

Reputation: 17095

In windows 10 you can do this:

FileUtil.CopyFileOrDirectory("unityProject/mygame.exe", "%userprofile%/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup/mygame.exe" );

Upvotes: 0

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