Windows 10 HS3 Auto Startup???

[George]

Well, after all this time I upgraded my Win 7 system to Windows 10. Amazingly, HS3 was the only system that ported over perfectly and works great. Most every other piece of software I had, I had to reinstall, but that's over with now. And, poop, now M$ is coming out with Windows 11... Grrrrrr

Question I have is, How do you get HS3 to auto-start when W10 reboots or signs on?

• I've tried putting the shortcut into the Startup folder
• Created a task in the task scheduler to start HS3 at Windows startup

I'd rather not do the registry hack to put HS3 as a startup item because sometimes I'd rather have a quick workaround to bring a up clean Windows without HS3 and especially HSSentry starting and keeps restarting HS3 when I'm in the middle of something.

So, am I doing something wrong? Is there special magic in Windows 10 to get HS3 to auto-start?

Thanks

[TC1]

Did you follow the Homeseer supported method? Should work with HS3 or 4.

https://docs.homeseer.com/display/HS...HS4+on+Windows

One thing that is not mentioned in the above is that the User account that Homeseer uses must be set to auto-logon when Windows starts up. You can still set a password for the User account.

[George]

Yup, I tried that by doing a google search, but I'll go back and follow the HS instructions exactly and report back after I restart the system.
And yes, the user is set to auto-login and it's password is in the auto-login registry. So the system starts right back on with the correct user. That works

[TC1]

What happens if you run the Task in the Task Scheduler library manually, does it launch HS?

[George]

TC1 Thanks loads man. I must have missed a step in the Windows instructions. Works fine now.