Autostart Option

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The program should be able to start when Windows starts up. We currently 
manually start it up.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest version of Beta0.1.27. Windows 7

Please provide any additional information below.
Please ad an option "start with windows"

Please attach an OpenHardwareMonitor.Report.txt, which can be created with
"File / Save Report" in the Open Hardware Monitor folder.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by linasel on 15 Mar 2010 at 2:02

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This is one of the main things I am working on right now. It would be easy to
implement, if the Open Hardware Monitor could run wihout Administrator rights. 
With
requesting Administrator rights and the Windows Vista / 7 UAC, there would be 
always
this dialog showing up on startup of Windows asking the user if it is ok to 
give OHM
more rights. This is not a good solution.

So I need to create a Windows Service where all the hardware monitoring takes 
place
and which can then be displayed in a GUI process without Administrator rights.
Windows Services have to be installed (en uninstalled if they are not used 
anymore).
There are two options. Either create a second distribution of OHM that uses 
always
the Windows Service and which comes with an installer (and uninstaller). Or I 
add the
service installing and uninstalling with some magic to the current no-install
distribution. But this second solution could confuse users (and Windows), when
someone just deletes OHM without first removing the autostart and the 
installation of
the Windows Service. 

Beside this, there is the problem that the no-install version with Windows 
Service
autostart option would need to run once with Administrator rights (when running 
it
standalone without Windows Service) and once without Administrator rights (when 
its
only a GUI to the installed Windows Service).

Original comment by moel.mich on 15 Mar 2010 at 3:01

• Changed title: Autostart Option
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Then, probably the easiest way is to drag the icon in the start up menu in 
Windows. I 
think it will work well, doesn't it?

Original comment by linasel on 15 Mar 2010 at 7:35

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If you have Windows XP or Vista / 7 with UAC configured to elevate you silently 
(give
Administrator rights without asking every time with a dialog), then adding it 
to the
start up menu should work well.

Original comment by moel.mich on 15 Mar 2010 at 7:56

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This issue was closed by revision r106.

Original comment by moel.mich on 27 Mar 2010 at 1:06

• Changed state: Fixed