Everything is opening on boot—startup is disabled!

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Just Visiting
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Everything is opening on boot—startup is disabled!

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This is driving me nuts. Seemingly out of the blue it's now opening after boot—Everything open itself on my desktip. There was a pop-up a few days ago if I wanted to run the EVERYTHING service so I said, yes...I think.

I checked the settings, installed the latest update. Ro-booted and the issue remains. I checked MS Config and there's no Everything Service list unless it's under another name. I don't want to uninstall and reinstall because I have quite a few folders listed in the excluded preferences. I don't want to have to go through the hassle to manually add again.

Is there a fix besides uninstalling and using something like Revo to remove all traces of Everything and then reinstalling?
void
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Re: Everything is opening on boot—startup is disabled!

Post by void »

Sounds like something is removing the Everything Service.

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the General tab on the left.
  • Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
  • Uncheck Run as administrator.
  • Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
  • Click OK.
  • Exit Everything (from the File menu, click Exit).
  • Restart Everything.

Check your Tools -> Options -> General -> Start Everything on system startup setting
Check your shell:startup folder
Check for scheduled tasks launching Everything
Check for third party tools calling Everything.
Just Visiting
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Re: Everything is opening on boot—startup is disabled!

Post by Just Visiting »

Thanks, I'll try the workaround and report back. There is no link to any evrything in the starup as previously mentioned.

What's the difference between running as admin or Everything service? I would prefer not running the service. This was the first time this happened.

On another note, I did find the everything ini file and it does contain excluded folders but I am curious why it doesn't also include my bookmarks? I may have to uninstall and reinstall if everything continues to open after booting.
void
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Re: Everything is opening on boot—startup is disabled!

Post by void »

What's the difference between running as admin or Everything service?
Everything Service: GUI runs as a standard user. Everything NTFS Indexer/monitor runs as a service.
Run Everything as admin: GUI runs as a admin.

-If you are using Everything 1.5 and don't wish to run as administrator, please consider the index as admin option.


I did find the everything ini file and it does contain excluded folders but I am curious why it doesn't also include my bookmarks?
Bookmarks are stored in your Bookmarks.csv file.
Typically under %APPDATA%\Everything
Otherwise, in the same location as your Everything.exe
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