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[vma]

I have to setup the registry entries to run my program at the start of my computer, but how can i set a key
where I need to have the path and the name of the program that was installed. how do i do that?

[Taco Bell]

For NT-based OSes (i.e. NT, W2K, XP), that area is as follows:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\<NameToReference> (String Value)

Its contents will be the program path and the name of the executable that you wish to run--in quotes if necessary (i.e. "C:\Program Files\FooBar\Foo.exe").

[vma]

ok, u say that i should set the registry value in quotes, of course the implicit folder is "c:\\Program Files\\..." but if the user changes the destination folder of the program that has to be installed, how can i know the new path, to add in the registry?

[Taco Bell]

Well that was just an example of the registry's end result.  For your actual script it would be:

TARGETDIR ^ "bin\program.exe", or something to that affect.

TARGETDIR is an InstallShield system variable which should be populated with the your setup's installation directory.  Whether that be the default or some other location that was selected by the user.