Auto startup on Windows10

[mgrob]

Newbie forum member.

Just built up a NUC system with Windows10 and Sighthound runs fine, but I would like it to auto-start on power-up.

I read these instructions: https://www.sighthound.com/support/runn ... r-computer

however despite being posted in March 2015, the only cover up through Windows XP.

Nonetheless, I was able to follow that general idea. It's harder to find the startup folder on Windows 10 and I found these instructions on how to do that: http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=faq-Wi ... =28#Image1

However it still doesn't work. When I restart the machine, the following window appears "The program can't start because MSVCR71.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem". And so it wont auto-start. Of course if i start it manually, everything runs fine. (i tried both startup folders - the user specific one, and the common one - same result)

So if anyone has figured out how to get sighthound to auto-start with Windows10 please let us all know.

Note to Sighthound: This is a really important capability. One wants to have small, lower power NUC-like machines w/o monitors and keyboards and they have to come back up after power outages and moving the plugs and what not.

thanks everyone
Matt

[mgrob]

I made some progress on this - I carefully followed these instructions:

http://www.ampercent.com/autostart-prog ... -10/13255/

Make sure you make the shortcut as they say, and select the "sighthouse video" executable when making the shortcut. This worked for me - i still have to log in to the machine (that is a different issue) but at least it starts when I log in.


It's a very important issue because Windows10 is constantly updating so w/o this feature, sighthound stops a lot.

I'd be very interested to know how others are handling this. thanks. -matt

[ryan]

Hi mgrob,

Improving startup options/behavior is very high on our priority list so hopefully we'll have good news for you soon.

Best,
- ryan