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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: cor on February 20, 2010, 01:06:41 PM

Title: Autostart profile in windows xp
Post by: cor on February 20, 2010, 01:06:41 PM

Hi all,

When I first installed Mach3 I had a desktop icon of my profile, but I deleted it :-/.
Now I have a dedicated computer for my machine and want windows xp to start up automatically with my profile when the computer starts up.

Using the startup option in windows xp is not a problem, but which program do I have to start? When I select "mach3.exe" an option screen appears,

Thanks,
Cor

Title: Re: Autostart profile in windows xp
Post by: Hood on February 20, 2010, 02:21:43 PM

You need to put the shortcut into the Startup in XP.
To get the shortcut just change the path of any shortcut icon you have for Mach on the desktop (or any other for that matter) to
C:\Mach3.exe\ pMach3Mill

If its a custom profile just have the name of that after the p, also note the space between the \ and the p

Hood

Title: Re: Autostart profile in windows xp
Post by: cor on March 08, 2010, 11:46:54 AM

Hey Hood, thanks for the reply, but unfortunately , it doesn't work, I get an error message. Attach a photo from the path and the error message. My profile is called cnccor.

Many thanks,
Cor

Title: Re: Autostart profile in windows xp
Post by: Hood on March 08, 2010, 11:58:26 AM

oops, my mistake, sorry, the \ should be a /

Hood

Title: Re: Autostart profile in windows xp
Post by: Hood on March 08, 2010, 12:05:41 PM

Just to be clear what you should have is
C:\Mach3.exe/ pcnccor

Hood

Title: Re: Autostart profile in windows xp
Post by: cor on February 09, 2011, 04:03:41 PM

@ Hood,

OEPS... totally forgot about this topic (again)......

I just tried this , also in the command line , but it didn't work , again an error message.

This is the line I used:
C:\Program Files\cnc\mach3\Mach3.exe/ pcnccor

"cnccor" is the profile I click when I get the little interface when I start Mach3.
Mach3 is in the correct folder C:\Program Files\cnc\mach3\Mach3.exe , when I past this in the command line mach 3 starts

Anyone has a clue why the / pcnccor doesn't work? (I also tried "Mach3.exe/ pcnccor , Mach3.exe\ pcnccor, Mach3.exe \pcnccor, Mach3.exe /pcnccor, all to no avail)

Thanks again ,
Cor

Title: Re: Autostart profile in windows xp
Post by: rrc1962 on February 09, 2011, 04:13:29 PM

There should be a space after the exe and before the /p switch and a space after the switch and before the profile...like this...

C:\Program Files\cnc\mach3\Mach3.exe /p cnccor