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dpdevil16

3rd March 2004, 21:13

Hey folks,

I have SHOUTcast server in my startup group on my Windows Server 2003 machine. I was wondering if there was a way to have the server monitor start up in hidden mode when the machine starts up so I don't have to click on the Hide Monitor button during each startup. Is there a secial flag I can put in the target line in the startup shortcut to have it do this? Or perhaps would it run in the background altogether if I added it to the Run Services group in the system registry?

Any thoughts? Thanks. :cool:

FesterHead

4th March 2004, 04:38

Run: Minimized

dpdevil16

4th March 2004, 05:36

OMG, duh! How could I freaking forget. Thanks. :blah:

jesseg

6th March 2004, 23:47

You could also run it as a service using Fire Dameon. =)
http://www.firedaemon.com/
cheers

dpdevil16

7th March 2004, 01:58

Eh, thanx for the suggestion but I'm not crazy about 3rd party programs doing stuff like that for me. If I wanted to run anything as a service, I would just add it to the RunServices group in the registry myself. But if I'm not mistaken, doing that would eliminate the tray icon, cus I believe that's happened to me before.