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Sometimes you would like to know if your program was launched on the boot of the machine or activated by a user.

Here is a simple way to find just that in real-time.

What I would do to handle cases where the launch on boot is done through a shortcut is one of two options.

1. If you can, add a parameter to the call of your application and check for it using the args[] in:
   [MTAThread]
   private static void Main(string args[])
   {
2. Use this post to know how long its passed since boot, check for a minimum period to know that it was started by the user, this is not bulletproof as it might take a while for boot to finish and your app to start but it is a solution when you have to do this.

Got any ideas yourself? let us know in the comments !

Good luck,
Nadav