Question

In my application, I am trying to set my application as startup by adding registry entry using the following code:

RegistryKey startupapp = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run", true);
startupapp.SetValue("App", "\"" + Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location + "\"" +" -start");

But the problem is the registry is added only when I run my application as an administrator. Is there any way I could avoid this this thing, so that my application could add/delete registry entries for the startup app?

Answer 1

That is because HKLM requires admin rights to write to. HKCU doesn’t require that.

RegistryKey startupapp = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run", true);

startupapp.SetValue("App", "\"" + Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location + "\"" +" -start");