Best way to startup housebot at boot time

[bcoggs]

I have HB running on an XPSP3 box which I access with Remote Desktop which requires that you use a user account with a password.

I want HB to startup when the machine starts up, without waiting for the user account to log in (remotely or locally).

I created a scheduled task to start HB at boot time. This works. However, when I later log in, an instance of HB is already running;

In order to run the HB GUI I must first kill that first instance of HB.

Is there some less klunky way of doing this ? Perhaps have the first instance of housebot exit once the user has logged in ? Or do I have to
write a script which orchestrates the kill/restart on my own ?

Thanks.
..c

[roussell]

Here's how I do it on XP:

Download and install TweakUI from Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Down ... rtoys.mspx
It will allow your PC to auto-login witht he user/pass you want

Select one of the batch or vbscripts from here to place in your startup folder for the autologon user above:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=856341

HTH,
Terry

[markd]

I do it the same way as Terry, using a script that re-starts HB if it crashes. Works very easily.

[Richard Naninck]

Same here.
I also created a startup script to start the SWRemote. I timed how much time it took for the HB Server to be fully running. It takes a little less than a minute in my case. The SWRemote start script starts from the startup folder and just waits for 60 seconds before starting the SWRemote. So after any reboot, the PC returns into a fully functional HB server with the swremote running.