starstreak

I'm just trying to figure out how I can clean it up a bit more. I'm close. Cold boot is ok, wake from sleep is ok. Only thing not working is if I click the TT RGB Plus program icon to get to the GUI. If I do, it'll run two instances of the software. You would think the software is smart enough not to allow it. I know it can't be this, but I powered down my computer and removed power from it for about 24hrs. Due to some cleaning. When I powered it back on, this TT software wasn't working right, and I swear my computer took longer too startup since then. What used to take about 20 seconds, now took 45seconds. Warm restarts would restart fast. Also, my clock was wrong, which is weird. Everything is new including the battery on the MB. Go figure. None of that should've been caused by the computer not having power for 24hrs.

Ok, so i think I know partly what was going on. There's a few things going on. So I'll list things in steps. If any of these could be the cause of something, please let me know. 1) It seems there was a new version of the TT RGB Plus. It's dated 5/10/19. called TT_RGB_Plus_Setup_128_x64. It doesn't play nice. I couldn't get it to launch at startup no matter what I did. Enabling/disabling the start at startup didn't do anything. 2) I still have Sideshow Pat's Task Scheduler running. But I had to make a correction so it would find the program since it's now in the Program Files, and not Program Files (x86) 3) When I installed that, it did tell me there was a newer version of the C++ so the installation of that failed. But the software (TT RGB Plus) still loaded. Still I couldn't get the software to launch at startup. But once I'm i windows, if I force RUN Sideshow Pat's task in the Task Scheduler, it would load the software without having the GUI pop-up. So the runs. 4) I disabled Sideshow Pat's task to see if that was the cause of the program not starting up, but that still didn't help. 5) With all that issue, I uninstalled that version and installed the older v1.2.7. It installed, but encountered the same C++ failed to install. 6) So now the software launches at startup. Brings up the GUI every time my computer starts up from cold boot. 7) But I get the flickering lights when I use my TEMP settings for the lighting. I don't know if that will cause an issue in the long run. 8) When I open task manager, under background processes, I see TWO "TT RGB Plus.exe" running. If I force quit one, then the flickering stops. 9) So when I checked Task Scheduler there's TWO TT RGB Plus running. One created by v1.2.7, and the Sideshow Pat's. 10) When I had the 64-bit version of the software installed. There was no Task Scheduler created by the TT RGB Plus, which probably explains why it was never launching at startup. With or without me check marking the "launch at startup" on the TT RGB Plus icon in the notification area. 11) I disabled the version scheduled task the software made. And on cold boot, TT RGB Plus wouldn't launch at startup. 12) So Pat's scheduler wasn't working from startup? I mean it should run a killtask if there's a TT RGB Plus running, then launch it's own. but it doesn't do that from a cold boot. 13) BTW, is Pat's scheduler supposed to say Ready or Running? When it is working correctly? 14) Now here's how I think I fixed it. A) I have two triggers. The one Pat made, another that Triggers "At log on" "at "log on of any user". Which is the same thing that the software from TT RGB Plus scheduler created. EXCEPT it theirs, besides the check on Enabled, they have a check on Activate with the date and time I installed the software. I removed that part from my version. b) I changed under Actions tab Start a program I edited it to look like ( C:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe /F /IM "TT RGB Plus.exe" ) everything within the ( ) I left the Start in (optional): ( C:\Windows\System32\ ) Everything between the ( ). c) And the second Start a program I edited to look like: ( "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tt\TT RGB Plus\TT RGB Plus.exe" ) again, everything between the ( ). d) Under Conditions tab, there is NOTHING checked since this is a desktop. e) Under Setting tab, I have the "allow task to be run on demand" and "if the running tasks does not end when requested, force it to stop" checked. And I changed the "if the task is already running, then the following rule applies" to "Stop the existing instance". So now when I start windows with both Task schedulers enabled (The one made by TT RGB Plus, and Sideshow Pat) It seems to start up with my computer, and now I only have one version running. I do not know if it killed one and started another, but I'm guessing that was done? If I put my computer to sleep and wake it up, I can see the lights are at default (rainbow). But when I sign into my windows 10, after a few seconds, I can see the light shift back to "temp" effect. A weird side effect: When starting up the computer from cold boot, I do not get the GUI popping up. AND I do not see the TT RGB Plus icon in my "Notification area". If I try to manually launch the TT RGB Plus from the start menu , it will launch the GUI, and I get the flickering lights when the temp changes, and I now have TWO TT RGB Plus.exe running in task manager again. If I put the computer to sleep and wake it up, it'll kill the one of the two TT RGB Plus.exe and I don't get the flickering lights, and once again, it's gone from my notification area. Anybody know how I can clean this up as I'm sure a lot of you didn't have to do all of that to get it to work.

OK anybody else having issues where the app doesn't launch at startup? I can turn it off/on to launch at start up (once I manually launch it) but neither settings will allow it to run from a power off. But with sideshow pats fix, if I out it to sleep and wake it up, it'll launch the app. Weird.

Ok I stand corrected. After waking from sleep, it started doing the flicker. I exited the TT Plus, and ran a program. The flickering stopped. So now I'm wondering if I did something that is causing the tt plus not to exit and re-run after sleep

Sideshow Pat- I tried your fix and when i have my LEDs set to TEMP, it would flicker when changing colors. BTW, I think I just fixed it. When you say, check the Run TT when windows starts, is the box supposed to be a empty square or a filled out square? I had it filled in. When I removed the filled in square and quit the program, I went to sleep and woke up the computer. When it woke, it would still check to see if program was running, and of course it wasn't. So it activated the TT RGB Plus. Now the lights don't flicker. When I started my computer before when the box blackened out, I used to get the TT Plus window opening. Now with it unblackened, when I start up, I don't get the TT Plus window opening where I have to close it. I think your program checks when computer starts up and runs the software if it's not running. I think the issue was for some reason, my computer was running the TT Plus two times. I checked task manager and it only saw one when I had the flickering issue. Only by unchecking the run at startup, is it working properly now.

If someone got either of the two fixes above to work, please tell me how. The fix from Mindpreblown works, but when waking up/turning on the computer, I get a pop-up if I want to allow the software to make changes. And I have to choose yes. And when starting from a shutdown, I get the software to load normally, and then TWO others requesting me to allow the software to make changes. So maybe something is not right? The tech007 fix, I tried, but nothing happened. So I have no clue what went wrong with that one.

Ok, so Thermaltake sent me a new controller/A cable w/two micro usb connections on one end and a usb 2.0 header connector and the other end, and another cable with what looks like a power connector to microusb. All of that to replace the one that I currently have. The only thing that looks different is on the controller. Right next to the microusb connector, theres like a molex connector that looks like would that that other power connector to microusb cord. I replaced everything but adding that power to mictousb cord. When the computer goes to sleep and wakes up, it still forgets the setting. Maybe I'm supposed to use that other cord? If I attached it to the controller, the other end is a micro usb connector. I don't see anywhere it's supposed to connect to. I mean, inside my computer case, there is no micro usb connector for it to plug into. I tried Tech007 coding, but I couldn't get it to work.