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How to Auto Start MT4 if Windows VPS Reboots

PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 12:06 am
by FXVM
Using a forex VPS is an excellent practice for maintaining 100% stability and availability of your MT4 platform, and expert advisors. Additionally, it is critical to automatically start MT4 in the event of a system reboot. This way, MetaTrader will restart automatically with Windows in the event of a system crash or reboot, and there will be no need to log in and start the program manually.

This is also very useful for servers running multiple MetaTrader instances, to avoid manually starting each terminal when Windows reboots.

We recently integrated auto-restart MT4 functionality into our forex VPS service, but this guide can be used with any VPS, or even a home PC.

The guide uses a free utility called Startup Manager, which provides an easy interface for defining normal programs (.exe's) as system services. This allows Windows to run the programs at system boot, before any user account logs in.

The application is freeware, available to download here: http://www.startup-manager-windows.com/downloads/startman.exe

Install the program, then do the following to add your MetaTrader terminal to system startup:

1. Open Startup Manager (download link above) and click the green “+” icon.
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2. In the popup dialog, click Browse.
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3. Locate your MT4 terminal.exe file, usually in C:\Program Files (x86)\MetaTrader 4\terminal.exe.
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4. Click OK to add the .exe to the startup list.
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5. Confirm that terminal.exe by MetaTrader has been added.
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Done. MT4 will now automatically restart in the event of a system reboot. There is no need to keep Startup Manager open; all changes are saved to the system registry and will take effect immediately.

Hopefully this guide was of some use. Please post if you have any questions, I will update the thread quickly!

Re: How to Auto Start MT4 if Windows VPS Reboots

PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 11:08 am
by prapforex
it's very useful software sir...
Thanks so mcuh for your information and the guide.
Success for you..
Do these software free ??
I need it to make my EA in liteforex's VPS always run..