User's How-To Guide Flynet Viewer Taskbar Notification Icon Setup. 2009, 2013 WildTower Solutions

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1 User's How-To Guide Flynet Viewer Taskbar Notification Icon Setup 009, 013 WildTower Solutions

2 Contents Chapter 1 Chapter Introduction Overview Steps to Configure Startup for the Taskbar Tray Open Windows Task Scheduler Create Task General Tab for New Task Triggers Tab for the New Task Actions tab for the new Task Save the new Task On next restart... Vista Only- Prevent Logon Run as installed

3 Introduction 1 Overview A quick guide to configuring a new Flynet Viewer installation on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 008 and Windows 01. Describes how to have the "Blue FV Icon" always available in the Taskbar Notification Area icons. Since the process behind this icon needs to run as an elevated (administration) task, the Task Scheduler needs to be used. If you do not need the icons in the taskbar, than you can simply run, right-click on each icon and un-check the "Display at Startup" setting for each of the icons, then exit each one. On the next startup, they will no longer appear, and the message should also stop. First Step... Chapter 1 Introduction 1

4 Introduction 1 Open Windows Task Scheduler Open the Windows Task Scheduler you can use the Control Panel Administration menus or the command: taskschd.msc Chapter 1 Introduction

5 Create Task On the right panel of the Task Scheduler, Click on Create Task: Chapter Steps to Configure Startup for the Taskbar Tray 3

6 General Tab for New Task Provide some information that will be displayed in the Windows Task Scheduler for this task--change the Name and Description properties from the defaults and also set "Run with Highest Privileges" and set it to run for the active operating system. 4 Chapter Steps to Configure Startup for the Taskbar Tray

7 Triggers Tab for the New Task Select the Triggers Tab on the properties notebook for the new Task, and click on the New button to display the New Trigger panel. Select At log on for the Begin the task drop-down. If the "Stop Task if it runs longer than:" checkbox is checked, uncheck (unless you would like the icons to just disappear at some point in the future!)...the default should be unchecked. In the example, the user was set to the active user who has administrative privileges... Click on OK to save the new trigger. Chapter Steps to Configure Startup for the Taskbar Tray 5

8 Actions tab for the new Task Next, click on the Actions tab, so that a new action (program execution) can be defined. Click on the New button to add a new action. You can browse to the location in the following screenshot, or key it directly in. Note the arguments, which essentially say to display both the Connector (c) and the Simulator (s)...to control which icons display you can omit one. If you never use the SimHost Service, just have -tc as the arguments setting to display the blue FV icon only. Click on OK to save the new action. 6 Chapter Steps to Configure Startup for the Taskbar Tray

9 Save the new Task Click on OK for the New Task notebook property pages--you should now see the task in the Task Scheduler Library list: On next restart... Or logon, the FV (and if selected the S) icon will appear in the taskbar notification tray. NOTE--if you need to re-install Flynet for an update, the entries you have created in the Task Scheduler will not be touched, so you only need to perform this setup one time. Chapter Steps to Configure Startup for the Taskbar Tray 7

10 Vista Only- Prevent Logon Run as installed With Vista, an annoying message will appear if the "Display at Startup" is checked--un-check to get rid of the message. Then, on each icon (SimHost or Flynet Viewer), right-click and uncheck Display at Startup by clicking on the item... 8 Chapter Steps to Configure Startup for the Taskbar Tray

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