http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Always running an .exe with a comand line switch en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:01:45 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/always-running-an-exe-with-a-comand-line-switch#post-16876 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:58:58 +0000 jd2066 16876@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I agree with Lighthouse, something is resetting the key when it shouldn't be.<br /> You can you the program <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/processmonitor.mspx'>Process Monitor</a> to monitor the registry and find out what program is changing it. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/always-running-an-exe-with-a-comand-line-switch#post-16810 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:35:20 +0000 Lighthouse 16810@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>But why does the registry entry change when you finish? That, I think, is the problem </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/always-running-an-exe-with-a-comand-line-switch#post-16744 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:51:41 +0000 jonhill987 16744@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>In order to get the game Re-Volt to work on Vista it requires a -sli switch. This is fine for single player as I can just add that to the end of the short-cut (eg. "C:\Games\Acclaim Entertainment\Re-Volt\revolt.exe" -sli) and it runs every time. However for multiplayer it is launched by an external application so I can't add the -sli on to the end.</p> <p>The solution I found (on another site) was that adding the following to the registry:</p> <p>[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectPlay\Applications\Re-Volt]<br /> "CommandLine"=" -sli"</p> <p>This works, but only once, the key has to be added each time you want to run the game (in multiplayer anyway). Constantly adding that to the registry is a pain so I was wondering if there a way that I can make the .exe always run using that switch. </p>