ThrottleStop Installer

slupton

Thanks to owning this awesome predator laptop I learned about ThrottleStop. I've been setting it up on a bunch of friends laptops and I got tired of the process of creating a task, making sure it's actually starting, not just in the background or having to do it some other way. So I made an installer that gets it all done in seconds. There is a build available to download in releases or you can clone the repo and build it yourself. I tried to keep it pretty simple, so if I don't notice an update it's easy for anyone to create a new installer.

https://github.com/slupton89/ThrottleStopInstaller

Let me know if there are any problems. It was my first time working with this scripting but it seems to work perfectly on the two laptops I've tried it on.

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sri369

slupton said:

Thanks to owning this awesome predator laptop I learned about ThrottleStop. I've been setting it up on a bunch of friends laptops and I got tired of the process of creating a task, making sure it's actually starting, not just in the background or having to do it some other way. So I made an installer that gets it all done in seconds. There is a build available to download in releases or you can clone the repo and build it yourself. I tried to keep it pretty simple, so if I don't notice an update it's easy for anyone to create a new installer.

https://github.com/slupton89/ThrottleStopInstaller

Let me know if there are any problems. It was my first time working with this scripting but it seems to work perfectly on the two laptops I've tried it on.

The admin privileges are still needed :-(

I still went by this route, and am ok with the admin password prompt coming up since the task is at times failing to start and there is no notification of the same, even with multiple triggers set up.

Seeing the icons in tray is a sure way of knowing if TS is on or not.

By the way, I prefer using the laptop as a non admin user for security reasons. So apps that need admin rights at startup at times don't start up. I guess only way out would be trying to push this in as an optional service.

slupton

sri369 said:

The admin privileges are still needed :-(

I still went by this route, and am ok with the admin password prompt coming up since the task is at times failing to start and there is no notification of the same, even with multiple triggers set up.

That shouldn't be happening? When you downloaded or built the setup file did it have the small admin icon on the corner of normal icon? If so it should have installed TS with admin privileges already.

Tasks were too unreliable from my testing and experience as well and it was basically the same problems you were having. Also adding a shortcut to the startup folder also wouldn't launch 100% of the time. The registry key has been the best method so far.

sri369

slupton said:

That shouldn't be happening? When you downloaded or built the setup file did it have the small admin icon on the corner of normal icon? If so it should have installed TS with admin privileges already.

Tasks were too unreliable from my testing and experience as well and it was basically the same problems you were having. Also adding a shortcut to the startup folder also wouldn't launch 100% of the time. The registry key has been the best method so far.

Yes. That's what I used - the exe that was present. Let me try restarting now and see if it works.

I even tried moving it to All Users... still no use. Need to invoke it manually.

PS: My user is a "standard" user. This could also be a cause why it isn't getting started.