Help Please

mrgrimsby · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 05, 2007 Posts: 147

I have just downloaded totom home 2.6 and it loads up every time i start my pc but I only want it to start when I click on it or connect my tomtom.
In preferences there does not seem to be a way to disable it starting up on widows boot up .....any advice ,as usual, would be very welcome, thank you.
Pete,
Isle Of Wight

richard345 · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: Help Please

Darren · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject:

In HOME:

Tools | Preferences

Untick Start TomTom HOME automatically when I connect my device to my computer (recommended)

Click 'Done'

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richard345 · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject:

mrgrimsby · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 05, 2007 Posts: 147

Thanks for the info, Richard I have ccleaner and it has a start up disable tool for this kind of thing and I forgot all about it until your recommendation .
Problem sorted, thanks again.
Pete.

Darren · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:42 pm Post subject:

Strange just tested under XP and mine doesn't auto-launch when the OS is rebooted.
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mrgrimsby · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 05, 2007 Posts: 147

Darren mine didn't used to load on start up before I downloaded the latest version but then it did and there was no preference tab that disabled it in tools which bugs me a bit, I have, as I said earlier, managed to use a third party application to stop it loading so all is well again, thanks again.
Pete
Isle Of Wight

Darren · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject:

Odd, mine was a fresh install done to test when I saw your post. Ho-hum, the joys of Windows. Yet one more reason why I don't.
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dhn · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:13 pm Post subject:

In the root of the unit is a file called autorun.inf. It's a text file.

The contents look like this:
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[autorun]
action=Run TomTom HOME
#open=InstallTomTomHOME.exe
label=TomTom
icon=tomtom.ico
[DeviceInstall]
#This section is empty; autorun will not install device drivers to your PC.
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Try putting a # in front of the word 'action' using Notepad and see if the problem persists.

No promises ........... Rolling Eyes

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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:42 am Post subject:

But the OP want's to stop Home running when Windows starts, before he plugs the TT in, so nothing on the TT itself will help...

To stop it running when Windows starts, you either need a utility like mentioned above or to do a quick registry tweak. That's how I did it.

Although I can't remember exactly what *I* did, here's a very good description of what to do from a previous post:

philpugh · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject:

Unless I have missed something about the point of this thread... I get the same as Darren. I'm running XP SP3 and both TTHOME 2.5 and now the newer 2.6 behave as I expect. There is the TT icon in the system tray after booting and when I plug in my 520 (8.302) TTHome starts. I don't see the TTHOME main screen until after the unit is plugged in.
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richard345 · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:27 pm Post subject:

you can try:

START
RUN
type: msconfig
under 'Startup' tab untick TomTom home

next time your pc restarts it will come up with a window saying something like 'your computer is running in a diagnostics mode' or similar then just tick the 'dont show this again' and you'll not be pestered again.

if needs must, you can revert back to how it was by simply runnning msconfig again and re-ticking tomtom home

MaFt

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:00 pm Post subject:

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