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Old June 1st 10, 10:51 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
James Egan
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Default Dialup BEFORE Logon


On Fri, 28 May 2010 11:34:26 +0100, James Egan
wrote:

Any suggestions? I had tried putting the path to the Dialup icon in the Run
keys (HKLM) but nothing happened - I'm not very well versed on manipulating
loadpoints in XP.


The old way of doing it (prior to xp) was simply to use the
RunServices key instead of Run which would then load it before logon
but I don't think you can do that with xp or later. However, there are
other ways to start services running so you might look into those. Try
googling for RunServices xp or something like that. That should point
you to some alternatives.


http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1578294.php

I had a quick search myself about this and this user found a RunOnce
key which starts up before logon. Logic suggests a Run key will do
similar but I haven't tried it.

key
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Runonce


I'd appreciate some feedback if anyone's had any success with it.


Jim.

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