Re: Windows XP startup question

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:02:53 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<lsccj55ks0vo6teanoaafl74rdud18bii2@xxxxxxx>:

I need it to start my app if there a powerfail/restart when nobody is
around to log in.

John

Put a scripts in /etc/rc.d and create a symbolic link in each
/etc/rcN.d, where N is the run level for which you want this to run.

Yes, way to go in Linux,
but the poor guy is running windows :-)

But PowerBasic almost make up for it!

John

I will never deny the power of BASIC,
after all I did a lot with BASIC on the Synclair ZX80 and ZX81.
And I did drivers for the IBM PC in BASIC for ISA cards I designed,
the software department would then translate it into asm to speed it up.

But these days nothing beats C for portability and speed of development in
my view. Just the fact that the Linux kernel is written in C (apart from
some very small pieces), made it possible to port it to almost any
processor and platform that exists. That includes small embedded systems.
Suppose you wanted to port to ARM or MIPS...

Its not the app language, its the platform's OS.

The whole issue seems to be around how to get something to run, once, at
boot-up. That's a trivial task on *NIX systems. Not so on Windows (whatever
flavor one happens to be running).

Writing a Windows service is just as easy as a Linux daemon (been
there, done that). Especially if you need no GUI parts.

--
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
"If it doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer!"
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