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Author Topic: MC launching automatically with Windows despite settings  (Read 680 times)

Araj

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MC launching automatically with Windows despite settings
« on: October 22, 2018, 05:29:43 am »
Running MC24 on Windows 7

Although "Run on Windows startup" in Options is set to Media Server (only), the main MC window always opens as well.

Suggestions welcome...
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Spike1000

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Re: MC launching automatically with Windows despite settings
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2018, 06:10:05 am »
You don't have two versions of MC installed by any chance and it's the 'other' version that's actually starting?

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Araj

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Re: MC launching automatically with Windows despite settings
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2018, 11:33:24 am »
Nope.

I double-checked the Windows startup programs with a tool I have and it shows the program as Media Center 24.exe /Boot
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swiv3d

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Re: MC launching automatically with Windows despite settings
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2018, 01:13:28 pm »
Works correctly on a windows 10 machine.
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Re: MC launching automatically with Windows despite settings
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2018, 01:33:13 pm »
by chance it's not in the startup folder is it?
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Re: MC launching automatically with Windows despite settings
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2018, 10:03:53 am »
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it's not in the startup folder is it?

Nope.

I found it in the end.

I checked again today and yesterday's entry Media Center 24.exe /Boot (in HKCU\SoftwareMicrosoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) had mysteriously changed to Media Center 23.exe /Boot... but MC24 was launched in any case...  hmmmm

The Windows Registry still had many entries for MC23, even though it has long been de-installed.

No idea why the main window was launching regardless of Registry entries / MC versions, since MC23 was also set to only run the Media Server on startup before it was deinstalled.

Seems to be a freak registry issue. Hopefully it won't happen again now that I have removed all instances of MC23 form the Registry.
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