Thursday 8 June 2017

Making QSO Relay auto start in Windows 10

QSO Relay, if you haven't already tried it out, is a superb piece of software written by VK2BYI. Essentially it bridges the gap between JTAlertX and Ham Radio Deluxe since the author of JTAlert discontinued support for HRD 6.x (the paid for version of HRD).
QSO Relay sits in between the two pieces of software and relays QSOs to HRD.

QSO Relay normally runs in the task bar
near the clock. After a reboot it was found
not to be automatically running.
I found that occasionally it wasn't logging until I found out why. It wasn't running in the task bar after a reboot. On Windows 7 you can just drag the shortcut for any software you want to run on Windows startup into the StartUp folder on the start menu.

Not so on Windows 10 and you have to do a little fiddling to get it to do the same.

Press the Windows key and R simultaneously to bring up the Run dialog.

In the box that appears type shell:startup and press OK


Windows explorer opens in your own AppData location

Next drag the shortcut of the program you wish to auto start into the explorer box, in this case the shortcut of QSORelay.

Close explorer and that is it. Next time you reboot Windows and login QSORelay will be automatically running.