MercUpW.exe offers some extra functionality (sending email notifications etc), but unless you need that loader.exe should do. You should not run both, anyway. With the upcoming 4.71 release of Mercury it will as well be possible for registered users to run Mercury as a service that can be automatically restarted by the service handler in Windows in case of unexpected stops.

/Rolf 

Hello all,

Mercury has started crashing on me every day. As the machine it is on is not easily viewable, I only discover this when I happen to go and look at it. Because it is waiting for a 'send information to microsoft?' question to be answered, the UpW protector does not cut in on its own and mercury stays crashed. I have done nothing to this computer including I have not installed any new software nor put any new hardware on the machine.

How can I find out what might be crashing Mercury?

Ellie

Don't know what is crashing Mercury but are you running mercury.exe or loader.exe?  The loader.exe should allow Mercury/32 to automatically restart after any crash.  In addition, you might look into getting something like "Servers Alive" or similar to monitor the operation of the server.  I use an older v5 free version since the current v6 is way too costly.  I found this one that is freeware:

http://www.softsea.com/review/IPCheck-Server-Monitor.html

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]

Don't know what is crashing Mercury but are you running mercury.exe or loader.exe?  The loader.exe should allow Mercury/32 to automatically restart after any crash.  In addition, you might look into getting something like "Servers Alive" or similar to monitor the operation of the server.  I use an older v5 free version since the current v6 is way too costly.  I found this one that is freeware:

http://www.softsea.com/review/IPCheck-Server-Monitor.html

[/quote]

Hi Thomas

I am running mercupw.exe. It prevents me from accidentally closing Mercury, but will not restart after Merc crashes without me closing the dialogue box windows puts up asking if I want to send info. Where would I find loader.exe?

Ellie

How odd. I just sent a reply, asking where I can find loader.exe and it says my post needs moderation. I run mercupW which in theory should reload it if it crashes, but it waits until the dialogue box is closed before doing so.

Actually I was just looking at the ipcheck server monitor, but realise that it monitors the machine. The machine running Mercury doesn't crash. Just Mercury. It then restarts with no problem once the dialogue box is cancelled out of.

Actually I was just looking at the ipcheck server monitor, but realise that it monitors the machine. The machine running Mercury doesn't crash. Just Mercury. It then restarts with no problem once the dialogue box is cancelled out of.

I agree, it does not do what it says.  I can send you a copy of the freeway version of ServersAlive if you wish.  It can be set to monitor specific ports and other functions so I use it to monitor all my remote systems.  The unregistered freeware version is limited to 10 systems but that's generally enough for me.

Loader.exe is part of the Mercury installation so it's in your Mercury directory.

/Rolf 

Thanks Rolf,

I used the loader.exe to start mercury, but wonder in that
case if I still need the mercUpW.exe as well? If it
crashed in the night it is up and running again this
morning, but I don't actually know if it did, of course.

Do I just put both mercUpW.exe and loader.exe in the
startup folder?

Ellie