Overcoming Calamities
If you use dongles and a Windows operating system, in order to recover from calamities or unintentional power failures two problems occur.
1. Your computer doesn't restart when the power and internet returns.
2. After a power failure when you manually start your system, you log on and all you see is the desktop with no programs running that were before the power failure.
I AM NO EXPERT HERE WITH THE NEWER WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS SO WILL JUST WALK YOU THROUGH A SENARIO THAT WORKS ON XP PRO.
Microsoft in their wisdom changes the names of things that do the same thing. When possible I will give you the new name for systems I know.
Gathering Information
If you have ICONs for you Dongle or Dongles and your FR24 Feed, right click on them and select Properties. Copy the locations of the files including any enclosing quotation marks and paste them in Notepad for later copying and pasting.
Know your Windows computer name and your user name and if necessary password.
If you don't already know how to enter the BIOs Setup, on restart look that information up. Award bios uses holding the DELETE key during the hardware detection, to enter the BIOS Setup. Once you enter the setup, look for:
Power Management Setup
Use the Arrow keys to scroll up or down and the enter key to select.
Look for Power Management Setup and press Enter.
Look for an ITEM in the list called AC BACK FUNCTION and scroll to it until its value is highlighted and press enter. The value that was selected by the manufacturer was to not restart the computer on power failure. Use the arror key to select FULL-ON and press enter. Next press F10 to save and reboot. Windows will load normally.
Once windows loads like it always has, pull the power cord, count to 5 and replug it. The computer will start and load windows normally. If you are skeptical, try it several times. None of the Windows functions like REBOOT or SHUTDOWN are affected by the BIOS adjustments.
Getting Programs to Load on Start-UP
My purpose with this exercise is to get stuff to run automatically when Windows starts. For several generations of Windows, this has been available but seldom used by users. Microsoft changes the names of the terms from generation to generation and calls it progress.
In my case, I have 2 dongles, serial number 1 and serial number 2. Serial number 1 is used to connect to the FR24 Feeding software via /30003 Basestation type TCP Port in its configuration. Serial number 1 is also used as a concentrator for Serial number 2. If in your data gathering you have some switches in the configuration of the different Icons on the desktop, these are important and should have been pasted to your notepad.
Getting Started
A trusty way to find the the SCHEDULED TASKS folder is in the Control Panel. Open the SCHEDULED TASKS folder.
In this exercise you will create a task for the RTL1090 program and one for the FR24 Feeder.
Select Add Scheduled Task and it will start the Wizard which you will complete for the RT1090. Running the Wizard again for the FR24 Feeder will be identical.
This will be a multipart message since the 5 picture limit but each picture will be annointed for teaching.
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John
T-RPVD1
