{"id":45051,"date":"2013-12-06T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=45051"},"modified":"2013-12-06T12:28:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:28:31","slug":"auto-start-mt4-windows-vps-reboots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/12\/06\/auto-start-mt4-windows-vps-reboots\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Auto Start MT4 if Windows VPS Reboots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fxvm.net\" target=\"_blank\">fxvm.net<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This is also very useful for servers running multiple MetaTrader instances, to avoid manually starting each terminal when Windows reboots.<\/p>\n<p>We recently <a>integrated auto-restart MT4<\/a> functionality into our forex VPS service, but this guide can be used with any VPS, or even a home PC.<\/p>\n<p>The guide uses a free utility called\u00a0 Startup Manager , which provides an easy interface for defining normal programs (.exe&#8217;s) as system services. This allows Windows to run the programs at system boot, before any user account logs in.<\/p>\n<p>The application is freeware, available to download here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.startup-manager-windows.com\/downloads\/startman.exe<\/p>\n<p>Install the program, then do the following to add your MetaTrader terminal to system startup:<\/p>\n<p>1. Open Startup Manager (download link above) and click the green \u201c+\u201d icon.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fxvm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/autostart-3.png\" width=\"641\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. In the popup dialog, click Browse.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fxvm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/autostart-4.png\" width=\"641\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Locate your MT4\u00a0 terminal.exe file, usually in C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MetaTrader 4\\terminal.exe .<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fxvm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/autostart-5.png\" width=\"641\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Click\u00a0 OK \u00a0to add the .exe to the startup list.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fxvm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/autostart-6.png\" width=\"641\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Confirm that\u00a0 terminal.exe \u00a0by\u00a0 MetaTrader has been added.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fxvm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/autostart-7.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this guide was of some use. Please post if you have any questions, I will update the thread quickly!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was a guest post by <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fxvm.net\" target=\"_blank\">fxvm.net<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By fxvm.net 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 . 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