Getting HyperSpin to Load at Startup

[Wob]

Just wondering if anyone has had any success getting HyperSpin to load at startup, I can run it find manually but if I try and add it to my "Run" list in the registry so that it loads at startup or I have also tried setting it as my shell, this is my prefered method as it means I don't have to waste memory with explorer.

I get a similar result to the people in the "Hyperspin not working at all (http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=220&highlight=startup&page=14)" thread. HyperSpin is running but only shows a black screen, there is nothing in the log file and if I kill the task and manually rerun it it loads fine, even if explorer.exe is not running.

Cheers,
Beau

[Thebutcherjb]

I just drop it in the startup folder and thats it. it works good for me

[Wob]

Yeah that works, always the simple solution. I would still like to run it as my shell so that I don't have to load explorer, does anyone know how I might go about debuging it?

[Zinger19]

I just replaced the shell with hyperspin and it loads fine for me. Tell me what you've done step by step.

[Wob]

To set it as the Shell,

1. Open Regedit.
2. Navigate to \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
3. Change Shell Key from Explorer.exe to C:\Hyperspin\Hyperspin.exe
4. Reboot

When the system comes back up and see a black screen with a mouse pointer, I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and launch taskmanager, I can see hyperspin.exe running, trying to switch to the task does nothing. I can kill the task and rerun it via the run command in taskmanager and it launches fine.

Thanks for the help,
Beau

[Zinger19]

Did you change this from


SYS:Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon to
USR:Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot

Its the string named shell

also make sure you run control userpasswords2 to disable the password login if you have one that pops up

[Zinger19]

Also i don't know how you have it spelled on your computer but HyperSpin.exe is the way the it comes spelled by default and you have it spelled as Hyperspin.exe . That may or may not cause you to run into problems if it's not spelled exactly in your string as the exe is on your computer.

[Wob]

Thanks for the Tip, I changed that Regkey but no chance, password is disabled and I have it spelled HyperSpin.exe in my registry but it shouldn't be case sensitive anyway.

I am running MicroXP, not sure if that's causing problems.

[brian_hoffman]

You need to specify a full path..
"c:\frontends\hyperspin\hyperspin.exe"

Your path is diffrent im sure but I hope that helps.

[Wob]

Ahhh, I am "C:\Hyperspin\Hyperspin.exe" as mentioned above.

It's loading HyperSpin, I can see the task running, it just doesn't show anything, I just get a blank screen. Strange this is that if I kill the task and relaunch it then everything works fine.

[brian_hoffman]

its probably loading before other dependency's.
does your display driver load in the taskbar? err driver control panel.

Make a AHK script that waits 5 seconds before running HS would do the trick. then use the script as the shell

[BadBoyBill]

dont forget incase you want to escape back to explorer on exit of HS to set the exit program in HS.

[Wob]

Thanks guys, I'll give the delay a try. My exit program is going to be shutdown once I have it all sorted. Ctrl-Alt-Del will get to to explorer should I need it :)

[Wob]

No Joy, I even blew the delay out to 20 seconds to make sure, Still nothing being produced in the logs. I guess for now I'll live with loading explorer as the shell and loading hyperspin via the startup folder.

[redtapemedia]

No Joy, I even blew the delay out to 20 seconds to make sure, Still nothing being produced in the logs. I guess for now I'll live with loading explorer as the shell and loading hyperspin via the startup folder.

I can't do either! I've checked, double checked and triple checked and it doesn't work for me. In both cases (running as a shell and in the startup folder) nothing loads, but when I load task manager, hyperspin.exe is listed as a running program. Hyperspin runs perfectly if I run normally.

edit: I can run from the startup folder. but it'd still be nice to run this as shell

[davorini]

interestingly enough i get the same black screen w/ mouse pointer you guys referred to w/ hyperspin listed as running according to the taskbar if i run hyperspin via desktop shortcut