Add a program the autorun list on Windows Vista

"Whilst C.Schmalzruber's solution may work, you may want to take a look at Autoruns from Microsoft / Sysinternals. It is designed to be more of a diagnostics tool, however it will show you all the locations that files can be run from.

From here, you can choose logon (or any other section) then you see all the locations of files that get processed and run, You can right click on the section title and click ""Jump To"" which should open the registry key and / or folder.

Just drag your icon there and it should launch when that section gets processed.

Click here for the Autoruns website."

"for reference it can be found at this location (of course replace %username% with your username)

C:\users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu"