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hey guys..any way to delay the automatic startup of a program on windows 7?

im setting up a mining rig so that it automatically turns on and starts mining after a power failure..

using guiminer..problem is guiminer loads before msi afterburner gets a chance to apply the custom gpu voltages as the pc starts..pc hangs..

suggestions?

use a batch file and put a
sleep 60
before the guiminer command.

that will sleep for 60 seconds

could you please help me with that?

right now im running guiminer by just adding it to the startup programs folder..

how do i make a batch file?

Or you can use Soluto.

http://community.soluto.com/soluto/topics/how_does_delay_work

I personally don't like adding programs to my machine unless absolutely necessary, but this is straightforward and easy to setup.

id rather learn how to make a batch file i guess..instead of installing another program

create a text file and call it
miner.bat
in it put
sleep 60
c:\guiminer\guiminer.exe

and put that in your startup folder - should do it

ok i did what you said..it says sleep is not reconginzed as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

when i run the batch file guiminer starts up and give the error: cannot open file logo.ico

umm
are you running xp , vista or windows 7
umm
I bet Vista as MS removed sleep ...
change it to
ping localhost -n 60
cd c:\guiminer
guiminer

so it changes to the correct directory

using windows 7 64bit

ok it worked..sending 0.03btc your way for helping me out :)

ok the auto start function of the guiminer doesnt work when i run it through the batch file :S...if i run it directly it works :S

the log:

WindowsError: [Error 6] The handle is invalid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2005, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 1995, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1509, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1699, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 809, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 614, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 722, in _get_handles
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 761, in _make_inheritable
WindowsError: [Error 6] The handle is invalid

it may be worth just running the miner directly rather than the guiminer interface...

how do i do that..never used to directly before..

I'm a bit new myself however....
if you look in the console view it will show you what it passes to the relevant miner - give that a go ,
though this will probably leave the cmd window open ,
now there may be ways of detaching it - but I'm really not sure.
...
/me gone I'll be back in a few hours with a bit[coin] of luck :P

ok thanks..got it:)