FireMedic4Christ Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I have looked around the program folder and can not figure out which file is the executable for the status window. I want it to automatically appear after the computer is rebooted.Any help appreciated.Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hamilton Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hmmmm, you might no tbe getting any responses because other people are as confused as I am. What do you mean by the "Status Window" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Brian,Are you asking about the status window, which you normally get to by right-clicking the LOR Icon in your toolbar, and selecting "Status?"If so, I am unware of anyway to have that come up on boot.One thing to keep in mind, though; If you "Enable Shows" and "Launch at Startup" LOR should restart for you, and enable the lights in the event of a reboot.It's been a year or so since I tested that, but I'm 95% sure that the shows will remain enabled, if you infact had them enabled when the system was rebooted. I could be wrong; wouldn't be the first time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Fischer Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Don wrote: It's been a year or so since I tested that, but I'm 95% sure that the shows will remain enabled, if you infact had them enabled when the system was rebooted. I could be wrong; wouldn't be the first time! That's my experience. I usually reboot my machine about once a week during the show, "just in case". I'm running Win98 after all and it isn't exactly designed to be a server...-Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hamilton Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 ooooooh, I think I see what you mean after I read Don's posting. I think he answered your question. You are probably talking about the "LORTray.exe" file. It loads the scheduler as a Windows service.My experience is the same as Don's and Tim's. If you run the Light-O-Rama Control Panel (LORTray.exe) then right-mouse-click on it to select "Launch at Startup" from its menu, then that should be all you need to do. If the computer needs to reboot, then the scheduler will still run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireMedic4Christ Posted October 22, 2008 Author Share Posted October 22, 2008 Don wrote: Brian,Are you asking about the status window, which you normally get to by right-clicking the LOR Icon in your toolbar, and selecting "Status?"If so, I am unware of anyway to have that come up on boot.Yes Don this is what I was referring to. I have "shows enabled" and "launch at startup" selected, I just like having the dialog box with current status and the time of the next show on the desktop.As for rebooting, I find I have to reboot daily running WinXP. Otherwise it hangs and the next show will not start.Thanks for the advice,Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hamilton Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 FireMedic4Christ wrote: As for rebooting, I find I have to reboot daily running WinXP. Otherwise it hangs and the next show will not start.Brian, if you have time, you may want to take a closer look for reasons why you need to reboot daily. That sounds very odd and might be signs of another issue. On my computer that runs LOR, ZaraRadio, and the sercurity cameras (all on one computer), it has only rebooted twice during the last year (automatically) and that was because Microsoft pushed down some updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I would agree with Richard that you probably want to do some looking around for another problem. You shouldn't have to reboot nightly when running LOR (or any other program, for that matter.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin N Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 FireMedic4Christ wrote: As for rebooting, I find I have to reboot daily running WinXP. Otherwise it hangs and the next show will not start.I had the same problem last year. I could not go more than one night in a row without rebooting. This is on a WinXP laptop desighnated solely for LOR...go figure. If anyone has any ideas as to what might cause this...I'm open for suggestions. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Saunders Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Kevin do you use a usb adapter or a usb to serial adapter, You may want to check out this link about Usb Noise. Dan and company has found that some computers would have problems with noise, and have provided usb cables with ferrite beads on the website.-Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hamilton Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Can you guys give some symptoms as to why your computer "hangs", or why you need to reboot? When this occurs, have you looked at the Task Manager to see what is using all of the CPU time or causing it to hang? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin N Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Steve...I use the USB booster adapter with a USB cable I purchased from LOR. I can't remember if it has the ferrite cores at the ends or not (I'm currently at work). I'll check when I get home. Thanks for you help.Kevin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin N Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Richard...all I know is that on two different occasions (the only two times I tried, that is)...the show ran flawless the first night, but on the second night, the show never started. As far as the indications...the best I can remember, when I tried to click on anything it appeared that the PC was frozen. I can't remember if I could do the "3 finger salute" to reboot or if I had to completely power it down. Like I said...I only tried twice to let the show run for more than 1 day and BOTH times the show never started the second day. Very annoying problem when around the holidays, I have many things going on and have to make sure I'm home in order to make sure my show starts.KevinP.S. I don't know if this mateers or not...but I'm running a laptop cooler (Antec) which is USB powered...but again, everything works fine the first night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stachows Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 What happens without LOR running, does the PC still lock up ever night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin N Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 To be honest...I don't know. I've never done this. I only use this laptop for sequencing and running shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stachows Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 OK, well lets start with testing your Laptop without LOR running.Fire it up, and let it go for a whole night withing nothing running..Make sure you set LOR to disabled, and exit out of and close the control panel.If in the morning, or next night prefereably you come back, and the laptop is unresponsive, or sluggish, you have other issues.If you see nothing, the we will move to step two of Trouble shooting 101Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireMedic4Christ Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 I can't recall either whether or not I could ctrl.alt.del to get out. To be totally honest I have not had time to investigate further. I finally have some vacation time next week and this is one of the items on my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stachows Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 No problem, feel free to email me, or Im me as well... I am glad to help any way I can...Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hamilton Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 You probably need some time to narrow down the possible causes before anyone here can help you. The suggestion above is a good one. Run without LOR.Since you say it is a laptop, start by turning off all of the power saving features (I assume you have it powered all the time). I've seen cases where power-saving features on laptops will stop the USB ports from working and then not power up correctly.If LOR is the only thing running on it, and you find out the issue is not LOR (I'll bet the cause is something else), then you might consider getting the laptop back to the factory state or re-installing a fresh copy of Windows XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stachows Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Richard, you make a great point about turing off the power saving features....That should include turning off hibernation/standby as well, not just the hard rive and monitor features Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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