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    <p>Looks to me like you're close to answering your own question. I think you may just need to divide up the responsibility of configures whether to auto-run for each user... er, let me explain:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ewall.org/index.php?module=ContentExpress&amp;func=display&amp;ceid=23" rel="nofollow noreferrer">You can use either a self-healing component of HKCU Registry keys or ActiveSetup to ensure that every user gets the configuration</a>.</p> <p>If you use an HKCU Registry key, your MSI installer needs to have a component with it's "key file" as an HKCU entry--so thus the first time a new user launches the program, Windows Installer will do a self-heal to write those entries. One of those entries would be your HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Run value, but <em>not</em> the key value, because you want the users to be able to remove it and not have it come back every time they run the program! You would then want your program to have an option to remove the auto-run value.</p> <p>If you use ActiveSetup (which I would recommend because it's <a href="http://www.etlengineering.com/installer/activesetup.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">simple</a> and it "just works"), then you might find it easiest to make a simple app (or VBScript or such) which prompts the user if they want to have the monitor program auto-run. So your ActiveSetup would launch the prompt program/script, and the prompt program would create the HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Run value or, better yet, just a shortcut in the user's Start Menu\Programs\Startup directory.</p>
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    1. COThank you for your answer, I really appreciate it. From these two alternatives, it sounds as if Active Setup is the way to go, although I am a bit hesitant to use undocumented features. But what about the uninstall scenario? How would I get rid of the reg keys again?
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    2. COEssentially, you don't really have an option to clean up HKEY_CURRENT_USER reg keys, and anything you tried to do would just add *more* stuff that you couldn't clean up. So, generally, the installer should be able to remove the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE keys and maybe the ones for the logged-on current user, but that's about it.
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    3. COIf I understand correctly, this basically means that one should never use a reg value in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run? Since there would be no way to remove such a key, that would mean that Windows would try to start this application even after it is uninstalled, most likely giving an error message to the user... Which sort of brings me back to square one... :)
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