Software Deployment

Do you want to start your .exe file after the installation with your MSI file or after a restart/logoff-login?

what i want is the following :

the exe should be installed into the destination folder specified by user (and that's not the problem here)

once the user runs the exe after installation, i want that the exe autostarts when the system reboots

To start the exe after restart would not be a problem and there are different methods to do it..
you could use
HKLM/HKCU run key or runonce keys depending on the requirement
you could add the shortcut in the startup folder

But if you want this to happen only after the first launch of the exe, then as far as i know this could be done only with a help of a custom script.
There are lots of experts in this forum, may be you could expect few more simpler solutions to be provided [;)]...

ORIGINAL: daher
once the user runs the exe after installation, i want that the exe autostarts when the system reboots To do that, you'd need to alter the EXE itself: how is the package going to know when the EXE got run? As stated before, if you want the EXE to run after a reboot, you need to place a suitable command line into either the 'Run' or 'RunOnce' registry keys. My preference is to use the HKCU hive for such things, unless it has to be run for all users, in which case use HKLM.