anyone here who knows how to make my application
start automatically when windows starts?

A couple things you can do..

There are some simple ways to add information to the start menu or other places in windows. This is fine for a simple small use app.

If your app is mission critical, or a commercial app. Probably the best thing to do is to make the program a windows service, instead of a application. If you made it a service you would need to make sure your app is seperated in layers... IE. you UI would still be an applicaiton, however all your processing would be in a logic/business object layer which would run when service starts, and would not require the UI to be open to run. Make sense?

~rlc

i got your point. what if i just want my app to autorun as is without changing it to a windows service? is there a function in .net which allows me to do that or i'll just have to manually write keys to the registry?

Yeah, you can put it in an installer application if you are using one, or do it manually.

~rlc