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Helsinki-NLP / OPUS-CAT

OPUS-CAT is a collection of software which make it possible to OPUS-MT neural machine translation models in professional translation. OPUS-CAT includes a local offline MT engine and a collection of CAT tool plugins.
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Automatically loading OPUS-CAT engine at Windows startup #84

Closed DominiquePivard closed 1 month ago

DominiquePivard commented 11 months ago

As I wanted to have the OPUS-CAT engine to be automatically loaded when my copy of Windows 11 restarts, I copied its shortcut to the following folder:

C:\Users\Dominique\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

I then selected its properties and changed "Run" from "Normal window" to "Minimised".

Is this the optimal way to do it, or is there a better way?

DominiquePivard commented 11 months ago

I’ll add that when viewing startup apps, OPUS-CAT engine is considered as having a "high impact": image Is this to be expected?

TommiNieminen commented 11 months ago

Hi,

I haven't used Startup apps myself, so I don't know what the optimal method. OPUS-CAT MT Engine should run fine minimized, though.

I wonder what the High impact rating is based on? The MT engine will consume resources when it is actually using the MT models (these are big neural network models), but the models are only loaded when a translation is requested. The actual start-up of the MT engine only takes about five seconds on my very old laptop. But Windows might consider any app that takes a few seconds to start as having a high impact on the startup time.

-Tommi