Does NOT Autostart in WXP

[slemay]

Using Windows XP and AOL IM v4.8.2540 AIM+ does NOT automatically startup each time I reboot. IM starts up everytime without any problems - but without AIM+. I have to manually start that every single time.

Any work arounds for this?

[Guest]

i have the same exact problem.

[Guest]

...and me too

[Big-O Mark]

It happens to me in Win2k as well when I use the AIM settings ... I just put AIM+ into my startup directory and everything works fine.

[dbushea]

Fixing this problem is quite easy, if you have installed AIM it has made a registry entry. What may have happened is the AIM registry entry wasn't changed to AIM+.
Steps on adding AIM+ To registry:
Start -> run -> type 'regedit'
Go to this node:
HKEY_USERS
Software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Run

When clicking on run to the left you may see some entrys alerady there. If you see aim and it isn't pointing to the AIM+ executable then right click AIM and click 'Modify'
Enter in the path to AIM+ and at the end add -cnetwait.odl
Example:
C:\Program Files\AIM+\AIM+.exe -cnetwait.odl

If you do NOT see an AIM entry in there right click and click New -> String value
Type in AIM then right click it and click Modify and type in the path.

Dave Bushea

[Big-O Mark]

The autostart bug seems to have been wiped out in the upcoming release of AIM+ ... it's been tested on a variety of machines and hasn't failed yet :).