System Tray RSS reader

[Leeky]

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Does anyone know of a system tray rss reader I can download?

I've found one here but I want it to run on startup, and this one has to be started manually each time..
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/XML/infoBot.aspx

Also like the above application it would be prefered if the rss links were held in an xml file so I could add my own as default.

Failing that would anyone know how to alter the provided source code to make it run on startup? (Its coded in C)

Cheers

Lee

[Sproates]

You don't need to alter any code to make a program start when windows starts. You can either:

a) Created a shortcut to the program and put it in the 'startup' folder in the start menu.
b) Edit the registry (regedit.exe) and add a string value containing the path to the program in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run (to make it run for only the currently logged in user) or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run (to make it run for all users).

Option b is what programs that have a 'run when windows starts' option (e.g. Windows Live Messenger) do programmatically, there's no special trick to making a program do this.

[Leeky]

Thats for that, I didn't know you could actually make it a start up feature like that, the thing is though I wanted it to be a start up programmatically so I could ask people to download it for another project we were working on without having to explain to them how to make it startup automatically.

Lee

[Sproates]

Thats for that, I didn't know you could actually make it a start up feature like that, the thing is though I wanted it to be a start up programmatically so I could ask people to download it for another project we were working on without having to explain to them how to make it startup automatically.

Lee

The windows function for doing this is called RegCreateKeyEx. If you have a google about there's loads of places will give you examples of how to use it, it's not all that hard.