APM Planner RC5 Windows 8.1 autostart

Ground Control Software APM Planner 2.0
1

Good day, creating my ground station(thin mini-itx mobo, LVDS connected monitor and etc), and stumbled upon a problem - no matter what i try, for some reason the APM Planner does not start automatically, steps to reproduce:

  1. Turn off UAC(to stop the warning message when launching APM Planner)
  2. Place shortcut to “shell:common startup”
  3. Make autologin to desktop(Win 8.1 x64) and direct login(no prompt for username and password)

Unfortunately - the logs are scarse(Event viewer logs) and no event of the software startup exists. Am i correctly assumin the APM Planner is logging events in Windows Event Log, and are logging them at “Application” logs? If not - how do i track the logs?

P.S. For making sure that i am thorough - i have placed several(three different) shortcuts to various programs to shell:common startup folder, and upon restart they all start automatically no problem.

2

As, after numerous attempts, the APM Planner is not being started, i’ve decided to go via another route - add a sheduled task to execute the software after windows startup. And than i’ve encountered an error(see the attached file), that is really strange, as if i am starting it manually - no such error exists.

P.S. This “PC” is purely for ground-station use - i can go through the hassle of re-installing the OS from scratch if that is needed to test this.

3

Make sure you set the startup folder for the shortcut to the installation folder, otherwise it will not be able to find its own files.

All APMPlanner2 logs are in c:\users<yourusername>\apmplanner2