auto run a bat script in windows 7 at login

Question

I have recently acquired a windows 7 laptop from my late grandmother. I have been using it for work and other things. I decided to create a VM using VirtualBox And now I wan

Answer 1

Just enable parsing of the autoexec.bat in the registry, using these instructions.

:: works only on windows vista and earlier 
Run REGEDT32.EXE.
Modify the following value within HKEY_CURRENT_USER: 

Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ParseAutoexec 

1 = autoexec.bat is parsed
0 = autoexec.bat is not parsed