SoB problem

[VirtualLarry]

This is on my friend's machine. He has two accounts on the machine, one is an admin account, the other is a user account.

The service is installed, and set to "Automatic", and yet the little 17 in the tray icon doesn't show up, and right-clicking on Task Manager shows almost no CPU time being used. If SoB was running, it should be using all of the CPU time.

I can get it to start if I logon to the Admin account and manually stop and then re-start the service, and then the icon appears on the user account (not the admin account).

Any idea how to fix this "mess", and get SoB to start up when the machine starts up?

I told my friend I would upgrade him to a dual-core, if he would run SoB for me. If I can't keep it running problem-free, then this is going to be a problem.

 

[RaySun2Be]

Try stopping the service, then start up the GUI version. Go into the config, and make sure 'Autostart on Windows Boot' is unchecked.

Save the config file, exit, then start up the service.

See if that resolves the issue.

 

[TallBill]

What OS are you on? If its Vista then you have to install the service under the admin account regardless of how many accounts. You can make a shortcut with the proper parameters on the desktop to the sobsvc app and then run as admin.

 

[IJump]

One other thing to check is whether the service is allowed to interact with the desktop. Right click on my computer, select manage. Go into service. Right click on the SoB service and choose properties. The "Allow to Interact with Desktop" is on the log on tab. Make sure that is checked.

 

[NicColt]

Open a CMD session, goto \program files\sob

Then type the commands...

:: (installs the service handler) <- don't type these
sobsvc -i

:: (agressive: 2 clients) <- this is for a dual core, put -p:4:0 for Quad cores
sobsvc -p:2:0

:: (TOGGLE - keeps the icons in the tray, so that you can check them)
:: (This will show the SoB icons in the system tray so that you can see
:: (that it's working, toggle it until it says "keep icons visible = True"
sobsvc -k

:: (Displays the current parameters)
sobsvc -d

(once you're at this point either reboot or do the following)

:: starts the Service
net start "Seventeen or Bust Service"

(if you want to stop SoB either open them from the systray and stop them or stop the service)

:: stops the Service
net stop "Seventeen or Bust Service"

easy as pie

 

[VirtualLarry]

I uninstalled and then re-installed, re-configured, and manually set the NTFS permissions on the directory to allow full control for anyone, and now it seems to work, it starts up in the background whether or not the internet or admin account logs in.

Logging out or switching users still causes screwups and massive slowdowns though. SOBSVC is buggy, IMHO.