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Using Deno, register a command in the Windows registry to be run at startup
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// https://github.com/DjDeveloperr/deno_win32 | |
import { HKEY_CURRENT_USER, REG_SZ, RegDeleteKeyValueA, RegSetKeyValueA } from "https://win32.deno.dev/0.4.1/System.Registry"; | |
const HKEY = Deno.UnsafePointer.create(BigInt(HKEY_CURRENT_USER)); | |
const STARTUP_RUN = "Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run"; | |
export function registerStartupRun(name: string, command: string) { | |
const ffiString = new TextEncoder().encode(`${command}\0`); | |
const lpData = Deno.UnsafePointer.of(ffiString); | |
// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winreg/nf-winreg-regsetkeyvaluea | |
const error = RegSetKeyValueA( | |
/*hKey*/ HKEY, | |
/*lpSubKey*/ STARTUP_RUN, | |
/*lpValueName*/ name, | |
/*dwType*/ REG_SZ, | |
/*lpData*/ lpData, | |
/*cbData*/ ffiString.length, | |
) | |
if (error !== 0) { | |
throw new Error(`RegSetKeyValueA failed with error ${error}`); | |
} | |
} | |
export function deregisterStartupRun(name: string) { | |
// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winreg/nf-winreg-regdeletekeyvaluea | |
const error = RegDeleteKeyValueA( | |
/*hKey*/ HKEY, | |
/*lpSubKey*/ STARTUP_RUN, | |
/*lpValueName*/ name, | |
); | |
if (error !== 0) { | |
throw new Error(`RegDeleteKeyValueA failed with error ${error}`); | |
} | |
} |
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