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On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Ulli Horlacher
<framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> At startup cmd.exe runs a script which is defined by the registry variable
> AutoRun in "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor"
>
> I set this variable with:
>
>   rc = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor"
>   ar = "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\autorun.cmd"
>   system('reg add "%s" /v AutoRun /d "%s"' % (rc,ar))
>
> and write into autorun.cmd:
>
> set PATH=%PATH%;%USERPROFILE%\Desktop

The AutoRun command (it's a command line, not a script path) gets run
for every instance of cmd.exe, unless cmd is started with the /D
option. This includes the CRT's system() function. Your batch file
needs to set a sentinel variable such as YOUR_APP_AUTORUN that, if
set, makes the batch file exit without extending PATH if it was
already done.

Also, you can't just overwrite a user's AutoRun command like that. If
a command currently exists, you have to concatenate your command with
the existing command using parentheses and the "&" operator, e.g.
(previous_command) & (your_command). Use winreg for this.