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Old 09-14-2003, 04:23 PM   #1
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Direct boot to application

Is it possible to program Win98 to boot directly to an application? I know this can be done with Win3.1. I have my brothers machine set-up to boot to Word and open a document.
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Old 09-14-2003, 06:04 PM   #2
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Perhaps the easist way in Win98 would be to put a copy of the shortcut icon for that program into the "Startup" folder in your Start/Programs menu. Right-click on the program you wish to have start at startup, select "Copy", then go to Start/Programs/Startup, click on Startup to select it, right-click and select "Paste".

You can reboot to test it.
. . . Gary

[. . . and changing it back is as easy as removing the shortcut icon from the Startup folder

. . . the other way to do this is to use Task Scheduler, but not everyone likes to have it running, since it does use a few system resources]
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