I use an XP machine (purposefully no internet connection) in my observatory to load a program I wrote to display star charts. The app works very well, and has done for a few years. It was set to load when windows starts, and does.
I have now written a new ‘improved’ version of the same app. This also works as it should, so I removed the previous version from the startup folder and placed the new version in there.
The two apps are located in different folders. The old one is under the ‘visual basic’ folder under program files, the new one is in a ‘charter’ folder off the C drive.
However… when windows starts up the old version still gets launched! I have looked in the registry in the two departments (HKLM and HKCU) in the ‘run’ folder and in fact neither are there. I also looked in msconfig and services. The new version IS in services and the old one isnt – but the old one still gets loaded.
This isnt the end of the world as I can simply close the old one when it loads and run the new version from the desktop shortcut for it. It’s just annoying!