from winreg import HKEY_CURRENT_USER, OpenKey, KEY_ALL_ACCESS, SetValueEx, REG_SZ
from pathlib import Path


def add_to_registry(name : str, script: Path | str):
    script = Path(script)
    quoted_script = f'"py.exe {script}"'
    
    if not script.exists():
        raise ValueError(f"Script '{script}' does not exist")

    # use raw string to avoid unwanted escaping
    # e.g. \r, \n, \b, \t are Escape Sequences interpreted
    sub_key = r"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"

    # OpenKey returns winreg.PyHKEY object
    # which supports context manager
    # it closes the registry before leaving the
    # block
    with OpenKey(
        key=HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
        sub_key=sub_key,
        access=KEY_ALL_ACCESS,
    ) as registry:
        SetValueEx(registry, name,0, REG_SZ, quoted_script)
 

if __name__=="__main__":
    add_to_registry("TEST", Path.home().joinpath("AppData", "Local", "script.py"))

from datetime import datetime as DateTime
from pathlib import Path

with Path.home().joinpath("Desktop", "time.txt").open("w") as fd:
    fd.write(DateTime.now().isoformat())
    fd.write("\n")

(Jan-21-2025, 02:12 PM)jacksfrustration Wrote: ok so i already googled it and found this article
i followed the steps but it still didn't work. i copied the application and csv file into the startup folder. i created a python script file with the code in the article and copied the path into the HKEY registry. Still no luck. Please help