Making a cow shortcut on my desktop

[dennilfloss]

Which of these two items in the rc5 folder is the one that I should send on my desktop to have a shortcut to restart the client, dnet or dnetc? I just rebooted and my cow disappeared altogether as my setup files were updated (I hate to see this said on the DOS screen), so I uninstalled and reinstalled Russ' disk. Is that cow disappearing act something I should expect every time I reboot?

One more worry, when I reinstall the client and it fills the work to be done again, I am not recrunching the same unit again I hope?

Finally, should I stop the client when I install new software (or update w98 patches)?

Thanks.

 

[sciencewhiz]

I'm not completely sure that I understand you questions, and I haven't used Russ' disks, but I will try my best.

If you want to make a shortcut to the client use "dnetc.exe"

The last time that I heard, if you use the visible version of Russ' client you need to manually place a shortcut to the client in your startup menu to keep it cracking after you reboot.

The client should not be re-doing work when you reinstall the client.

I don't stop the client when I am installing software or patches. But then again I don't usually stop anything when I am installing software.

 

[Russ]

Denis,

If you used the standard "visible" install disk, it creates a shortcut in your startup folder that will load the client each time you boot. The disk is also setup to download a nice chunk of blocks automatically, so it'll have some chow when you're offline.

If for some reason, it didn't create a shortcut in the startup, the file you'd use is the "dnetc". That is the excecutable. The other is the ini, or configuration, file.

Russ, NCNE

 

[dennilfloss]

When I rebooted, the cow had vanished from my system tray but System Monitor still showed a 100% cpu useage. So the client was cracking but I wanted my cow back.

Under Sysconfig, my startup shows 2 programs:

"C\RC5\DNETC.EXE" -hide

and

C\RC5\DNETC.EXE.

I suppose that the -hide one is a leftover from when I first installed the client version and that it was it that hid my cow on reboot. Can I just untick it and maybe just remove it altogether.

 

[Russ]

PS: For you situation, this is the one you should use:

TA Cube dialup, standard

Note to others. The above is a version specific to TA Cube. Not for general Team AnandTech membership. I have those, too, though.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Russ]

Denis,

You're using the "service", or hidden version.

Russ, NCNE

 

[dawks]

o/t:
what happend here? lol

 

[dennilfloss]

Russ,

The first install I did was the service but then I uninstalled it to install the standard. I currently have a cow in my system tray and dnetc is showing under ctrl-alt-del. . I think that the hide command was a leftover (see my edited previous post).

 

[Russ]

DaZ,

HeHe. Does look a little weird, doesn't it?

Denis,

If you install the service version and later want to get rid of it, you need to go in to the System Configuration Utility/Startup and uncheck the shortcut that's created by the install. It will be the one that has the "-hide" on the end.

Russ, NCNE

 

[dawks]

thats right off of dnet stats about 5 minutes ago
maybe just an error during the update.

 

[Russ]

DaZ,

Not an error. I just retired us in to our new eMail. Won't be accurate until the next stats run. The daily total is right, though. And, I know what the real grand total is because I added up the numbers before I retired the address.

Russ, NCNE

 

[dennilfloss]

OK. Just unticking the one startup entry DNETC.EXE -hide did the trick. I rebooted and my cow is there. Problem solved.

 

[Russ]

See how easy these things are?

Russ, NCNE

 

[dennilfloss]

I don't delve in sysconfig too often. That would make me a geek.

BTW Russ,

How can I be sure that my ~1300 blocks were transferred to the collective. Do the numbers seem to show a reasonable difference?