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Old September 21, 2009, 08:41 AM
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Default XBMC start with Windows?
I went through all the setting and google and couldn't find out how to get XBMC to start on startup with Windows 7. Anyone know how to do this?

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Old September 21, 2009, 08:44 AM
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Why not just make an XBMC shortcut and add it to the Startup folder?
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Old September 21, 2009, 09:22 AM
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That's normally how I'd do it in XP, but I didn't think that it could be done that way in Vista/7.
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Old September 21, 2009, 09:25 AM
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i believe so
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Old September 21, 2009, 09:38 AM
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I'll have to check it out when I get home.
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Old September 21, 2009, 10:08 AM
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Yeah it's really the easiest way to do it. Shouldn't be a problem.
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Just in case anyone else is wondering, to put things in the start up menu in Windows 7 go to the cmd prompt and type shell:startup.
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