Help making the Driver Station run on logon

[TimSchley]

Hello all!
I am having some issues in trying to make the Driver Station run on the startup of the Driver account. I have tried putting a link to the program in the "Startup" folder running as administrator, and also I have looked at this post:

Originally Posted by Darnax

If you really want to get fancy and have the driver account bring you to the driver station instead of the desktop (like I did with my laptop) just do the following:

NOTE: This must be done on the Driver Account so it only affects it. Make sure you have a separate Administrative Account so you can still makes changes to the computer.

WARNING: I take no responsibility for any damage you do to your computer by modifying the registry. This is entirely your own choice.

1. Go to the start menu
2. Go to Accessories > Run
3. Type in regedit and click OK.
4. Once the Registry Editor is open navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon
5. Create a new String Value (Right Click > New > String Value) called Shell and set its value to the location of the driver station on your hard drive. (Should be "C:\Program Files\FRC Driver Station\Driver Station.exe")
6. Log off and back on to the driver account and the computer should enter the Driver Station automatically.

Alternatively you can use the following files I wrote (on the Driver Account) to add or remove the modification (assuming your Driver Station is installed to the default location and the computer is not a 64-bit system):
Add Modification: modify.reg
Remove Modification: heal.reg

Notice: To access the desktop on a modified account for any reason just get to the task manager with ctrl-alt-delete, go to processes, file, new task, and type in explorer.exe.

and followed the instructions (except using program files(x86) because it is a 64-bit computer). This also did not work.

Any ideas of what might be wrong or what we might do to fix this?

[ProgrammerMatt]

Does it do anything when it starts up? black screen?

[TimSchley]

It loads up windows like normal.

[ProgrammerMatt]

Then somthing in the registry that you edited is wrong is should boot in shell (black screen)

[inkspell4]

For our team we just imaged it than ran the driver station install/update and it works fine

[TimSchley]

I mean on a non-classmate computer with the driver station on it. I can't figure out how to get THAT to start up with only the driver station up.

[inkspell4]

Have you tried installing the classmate image

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by inkspell4

Have you tried installing the classmate image

On a non-Classmate computer? Perish the thought!

Seriously, don't try it. The E09 and E11 flash drives are intended only for the E09 and E11 Classmate. There's a very good chance that using them for anything else will result in a computer that won't boot.

[inkspell4]

Isn't there a rule that says other laptops are allowed to be used in competition as long as they are setup the same way as the classmate so there must be a way to do it

[Mark McLeod]

We do it on other laptops just by installing the Driver Station software, not a duplicate of the Classmate operating system and drivers.