How to make a piece of coding run on startup?

There are several ways, please ignore people telling you to use autoexec.bat, as they are clearly living in the past. Vista does not even support the autoexec.bat file anymore, so I'm assuming Windows 7 does not either. Best to avoid falling into a bad habit now, rather than find out it will not work later when you rely on it.

You can either as someone said, drop in the startup folder, or you can create a new registry key in some places in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\" depending on if you only want it to be run once on startup, then stop on subsequent startups, or if you want it to startup everytime.

You'll need to open the Dos emulator.

From Start menu select "Run".

Enter "cmd" and select run

This opens a window with something that looks like DOS. You should be in the Root directory, it'll have something like c:/ as a prompt.

Save your creation with the filename "autoexec.exe".

This may not work with that filename extension because it depends on what other files are around which affect the way that Windows boots but it's worth a try.

make a batch file with the location of the file and place it in your startup folder.

you basically just put the location of the file in a txt document.

c:\blah\blah\file-i-wan-to-start.extension

save it as a .bat file instead of .txt

Voila

yes, you should make a batch file and place it in the Startup folder ...

yes..just paste that file inside:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

replace that All users with your user name if it does not work