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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: NickM on May 31, 2004, 02:24:00 am
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New HTPC and just re-loaded MC10 - working well but a small problem on startup. Media Centre ( link placed in Windows start-up folder ) loads so quickly that when looking for the central library ( using UNC ) does not give the rest of windows time to load the various networking services. Hence the library doesn't laod and has to be manulally selected a few seconds later.
1. Is this a bug?
2. Is there a way to load MC on a delayed basis - really a windows question, sorry.
3. Is there a way to remove the default library option so that MC looks back again at the library as defined with UNC.
thanks !, nick
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Create a windows shell script that issues the Sleep command then fires of MC.
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If it's an HTPC I'll take a guess that you are also running Girder. If so create a command that runs mjextman.exe /start and trigger it on the GirderOpen event. This way MC will not open until windows has had time to start up Girder.
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Not using Girder - trying to keep things very simple...
I may be a bit slow here, but the "Sleep" command; wouldn't that put the PC into sleep? Are you suggesting that having given that command, then calling MC will stop the sleep process?
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The windows scripting host has a command called Sleep that pauses the script for the specified number of milliseconds.
So create a script that is called from your startup folder. The script will wait for a bit then fire up MC, e.g. put the text below into a file called test.vbs then double-click on it and you will see it pause for 5 seconds then fire up the DOS prompt (in NT).
' Wait 5 seconds
wscript.sleep 5000
' Get the shell object
set objShell = wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
' Change this to run your command ... it currently runs the NT dos prompt
objShell.Run "cmd.exe"
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Perfect - many thanks.