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After a power outage 1 program in startup folder did not start
After a power outage the only program in the startup folder on my home server did not start but when i looked at task manager it's process was running?
to be clear in Task manager it was not showing as a running application but program.exe was showing in the processes tab. It was obviously not working properly though as a window to it should have opened.
The program is a Homemade central heating controller written by me and has been running fine on my Home server for over 2 years 24/7 and has recovered from many many power outages in that time.
This is the first time this has ever happened.
The outage was for a few seconds only and my main computer (not the server) which was also running at the time would not restart properly at all and I had to do a system restore to get it to work.
I am going on holiday soon leaving some friends in my house and it would be a major problem if this happened again while I was away.
I can't see that this outage could be different from any other. could it?
a reboot is a reboot surely?
I rebooted manually and all was well so god knows why this time it was different.
should I get a UPS do you think ? if so anyone got a suggestion for a good one.
My server only uses 28w and most of our power cuts are short lived.
any suggestions are appreciated
thanks
Mike