It’s possible Bitcoin ran and bailed out because something was wrong. debug.log should tell something if that was the case. What OS are you using? I wonder if we need Admin privilege and don’t realize it. Stuff that requires Admin can’t start on startup on Vista.
I’m using XP. I recompiled the older revision and this time the
startup shortcut works. It also works when testing on Vista
(non-admin). Maybe I just missed something the previous time.
Program shortcuts have multiple tabs of settings with lots of little details. I’ll try the startup folder code and see if I can reproduce the problem. Every other systray icon on my computer is in the startup folder, and it makes it easy for users to manage all their autoruns in one place. The things in the registry key tend to be devious hidden bloatware.
Here it’s the other way around, I have all my startup programs in the
registry. But maybe the shortcut method is nicer for the user, if it
works just as well
Source: Published by Martti Malmi on GitHub in February 2024 as part of his testimony in the COPA v. Wright trial. The full correspondence archive is available at mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/.