How to count Startup Services and Processes using C#

Neeraj Kr

How to count the number of startup services and processes using C#. Is there a specific Win32 Class for this.

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Manas Bhardwaj

RegistryKey theKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey
@("Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run");
string[] theValueNamesOfKey = theKey.GetValueNames();

:)

Neeraj Kr

Actually I know about this registry key, but when I count the items in the Run Folder it comes out to be lesser than items listed in the startup section of the msconfig.

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Neeraj Kr

I created the following method for finding out the number of all the startup processes which is exclusive of the one in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Run. Here it goes.

public int getStartupProcessCount()
{
RegistryKey theKeyHKLM = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run");
string[] theValueNamesOfKeyHKLM = theKeyHKLM.GetValueNames();
RegistryKey theKeyHKCU = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(@"Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run");
string[] theValueNamesOfKeyHKCU = theKeyHKCU.GetValueNames();
string val;
string dName;
int indexVal;
int countStartupProcessess;
string[] allVal = new string[theValueNamesOfKeyHKCU.Length + theValueNamesOfKeyHKLM.Length];
theValueNamesOfKeyHKLM.CopyTo(allVal, 0);
theValueNamesOfKeyHKCU.CopyTo(allVal, theValueNamesOfKeyHKLM.Length);
countStartupProcessess = allVal.Length;

        string\[\] directories = Directory.GetDirectories("C:\\\\Documents and Settings");
        foreach (string d in directories) 
        {
            foreach(string d1 in Directory.GetDirectories(d))
            {
                indexVal = d1.LastIndexOf("\\\\");
                dName = d1.Substring(indexVal+1, d1.Length - (indexVal+1));
                if (dName.ToUpper() == "START MENU")
                {
                    foreach (string d2 in Directory.GetDirectories(d1))
                    {
                        foreach (string d3 in Directory.GetDirectories(d2))
                        {
                            indexVal = d3.LastIndexOf("\\\\");
                            dName = d3.Substring(indexVal + 1, d3.Length - (indexVal + 1));
                            if (dName.ToUpper().Trim() == "STARTUP")
                            {
                                foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(d3))
                                {
                                    indexVal = f.LastIndexOf(".");
                                    dName = f.Substring(indexVal + 1, f.Length - (indexVal + 1));
                                    if (dName.ToUpper() == "LNK" && dName.ToUpper() != "INI")
                                        countStartupProcessess++;
                                }
                            }

Manas Bhardwaj

Actually not. :) If you watch msconfig carefully, you can see that it might be having a extra number of start ups, but this registry key will give you only those which are enabled.

Neeraj Kr

Dude, the registry key you are talking about has nine entries on my computer where as the msconfig shows thirteen. And above all, they all the active. No one of them are INACIVE.. Check out my solution.

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