Re: Can Windows Vista Home Basic run AbiWord at Startup?

From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan_at_ryand.net>
Date: Wed Feb 27 2008 - 16:11:14 CET

Dick Dery wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set up a computer running Vista Home Basic for a blind
> person. I'd like to have AbiWord run at startup to reduce the user's
> frustration level. I know about putting items in the Startup
> folder,but When I put the Abiword binary in Startup I got an error
> message "libabiword.dll not found." I got the same error message when
> I copied the AbiSuite folder from Program Files. In my home system
> (WinXP) it worked by copying the desktop shortcut into Startup. My
> question is, will this also work in Vista?
>
> Thank you
>
Should work - don't move anything, though. You want to create a
shortcut, not move the binary.
You can do this by right-dragging and choosing create shortcut here.

Ryan

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