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Windows 8 Start Problem

Discussion and questions about Cumulus weather station software version 1. This section is the main place to get help with Cumulus 1 software developed by Steve Loft that ceased development in November 2014.
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KC0WNY
Posts: 23
Joined: Wed 14 Nov 2012 7:03 am
Weather Station: Davis Vantage Pro II
Operating System: Windows 8 Pro
Location: United States

Windows 8 Start Problem

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I have installed Cumulus to C:\Cumulus I am having problems getting Cumulus to start when windows starts, I have copied a shortcut to my Windows 8 Startup folder, this for some reason invokes two copies trying to start. So I tried adding it my run folder in my registry, this causes a error that states cannot write to cumulus.ini, this file is not flagged as read-only. I then tried to use windows scheduler to start it, I get the same error. I even tried to run it in windows 7 compatibility mode. I don't know what else to try, but I would like for the program to start up with windows. Thanks KC0WNY.
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KC0WNY
Posts: 23
Joined: Wed 14 Nov 2012 7:03 am
Weather Station: Davis Vantage Pro II
Operating System: Windows 8 Pro
Location: United States

Re: Windows 8 Start Problem

Post by KC0WNY »

After more testing, it appears that starting it with Windows Scheduler, by delaying the start time by 30 seconds works, no errors so far. Thanks
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bruce45
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Weather Station: wh1081
Operating System: windows 10
Location: Oban Scotland

Re: Windows 8 Start Problem

Post by bruce45 »

there is also a free program called start up delay which works well if you want to run programs on start up may be some help to others.

http://www.r2.com.au/page/products/show/startdelay
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