How to have voicecomputer start when win 10 starts

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I need to add VC to the Windows 10 startup. How do I do this?

2

Press Windows Key + R
type in
“shell:startup” (OK)
The Startup folder will open

Right click on the VoiceComputer icon on your desktop.
Select “show more options”
Select “Create Shortcut”, creating a VoiceComputer (2) shortcut on your desktop
Drag the shortcut into the startup Folder

3

Unfortunately, this produces the following message:

“Please check that Dragon is running and the user is open and then restart VoiceComputer”.

Do you know what is triggering this message. It is ridiculous. As I recall, starting VoiceComputer should start Dragon if it is not already running.

Thanks for the help.

4

It does unless there’s an error condition. Most likely, Dragon can’t find the microphone.
Is Dragon partially open but the user profile hasn’t been opened?

5

Start-up contains only a link to VC and links to some productivity tools, so Dragon cannot be partially open. Should I add a kill Dragon command just in case?

6

vp.exe?

That won’t work!
To open Dragon and VoiceComputer in startup, you need to put a link to “C:\Program Files (x86)\VoiceTeach\VoiceComputer\scripts\VoiceComputer.exe”, in the startup folder.

VoiceComputer.exe is a batch file that opens Dragon and then opens VoiceComputer. VoiceComputer will not run until you first open Dragon, which is what VoiceComputer.exe does.

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That did it. Kudos and thanks, Ron!

It’s great to get VoiceComputer back restarting everything.