Adding files to Run at your startup services Windows Servers

 

 

In case you need to add files for programs to run at your windows startup, it is best settled through the Registry Keys of your Windows Server, check your need and apply:

 

• RunServiceOnce subkey : designed to start service programs before user logs on and before other registry subkeys start.
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce registry key
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce registry key
• RunServices subkey : loads immediately after RunServicesOnce and before user logon.
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices registry key
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices registry key
• Run subkey : The Run subkey in HKLM runs immediately before the Run subkey in HKCU.
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key
• RunOnce subkey : primarily used by Setup programs. The HKLM subkey version of RunOnce runs programs immediately after logon and before other registry Run entries. The HKCU subkey version of RunOnce runs programs after Run subkeys and after the Startup folder.
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce registry key
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce registry key XP also has RunOnceEx:
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx registry key
• RunOnce\Setup subkey : specifies programs to run after the user logs on
• Explorer\Run subkey :
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run registry key
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run registry key
• Userinit subkey : there is an entry for userinit.exe but subkey can accept multiple comma- separated values. Can't find where program starting? Look here.
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit registry key
• load subkey :
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\load registry key
• All Users Startup folder : very common place to find autostart programs for whoever logs on
  Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder
• Startup folder : the most common location for programs to automatically boot from
  Documents and Settings\user\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder If you migrated from NT, the path is Profiles\user\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

HP - Microsoft Forge Four Year Cloud Pact

HP - Microsoft Forge Four Year Cloud Pact


HP (NYSE:HPQ) Enterprise Services and Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) have joined forces to offer global public and private cloud services, a four-year deal that will offer packaged bundles of HP and Microsoft gear and through which HP will resell Microsoft Office 365.


The two tech titans said Thursday that the goal of the pact is to bring customers into the cloud and help them make the shift from capital IT expenses to operational expenses.


For private cloud deployments, HP will offer Microsoft cloud productivity applications like Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 as a service from HP data centers as part of its HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Messaging, HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Collaboration and HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Real-Time Collaboration.


For public cloud, Microsoft will offer Microsoft Office 365 and other collaboration and productivity tools.


And on the hybrid cloud side, HP will resell Microsoft Office 365 with HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Messaging, HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Collaboration and HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Real-Time Collaboration.


HP and Microsoft will also share engineering resources to collaborate to deploy, support and enhance the joint solutions. Initial availability is expected this month in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia.


"This alliance with HP not only broadens Microsoft's geographic reach, it gives customers maximum flexibility to choose a cloud computing solution that meets their organization's specialized messaging and collaboration needs," said Mark Hill, vice president, Enterprise Partner Group, Microsoft, in a statement.


The HP partnership comes on the heels of Microsoft offering a bit of insight into Office 365's momentum since it launched in June. While Microsoft hasn't disclosed actual sales numbers, the company said that 90 percent of Office 365 customers are small businesses with fewer than 50 employees.


The two companies have teamed up in the past for cloud computing initiatives. Roughly a year-and-a-half ago HP was revealed as one of the inaugural partners for Microsoft's Windows Azure platform appliance, a private cloud box with public cloud attributes. The agreement would have Windows Azure platforms hosted in HP data centers. To date, that partnership hasn't come to fruition.


The most recent cloud pairing is also two years after the two tech big dogs teamed up for a cloud computing stack. In January 2010, HP and Microsoft launched a new technology stack collaboration for the data center into which the two companies vowed to pump $250 million over three-years with cloud computing as a major focus. The framework integrated Microsoft gear like Exchange Server, SQL Server and Hyper-V with HP's server, storage and networking hardware.

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