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How Dropbox Auto-Upgrade Works (and How to get AlwaysUp to Play Nice with it)

The Problem: Dropbox Automatic Updates Recently, a few customers reported “issues” with Dropbox automatically updating itself and causing havoc when running under AlwaysUp in their 24×7 environments. Apparently the auto-upgrade would restart Dropbox outside of AlwaysUp and that unmanaged instance … Continue reading

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AlwaysUp 8.7: Restart your Application when the PC Resumes

We are happy to report that AlwaysUp now integrates with the Windows power management system, to provide the ability to restart your applications when the host computer resumes from a low-power state (sleep or hibernation). This option is useful if … Continue reading

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Trouble with MT4 Build 600 and AlwaysUp?

Version 4 of the popular MetaTrader trading platform (affectionately called MT4) received a major overhaul in February. This forum post describes the many improvements in that “Build 600”, but perhaps the most dramatic changes were to the data storage layer: … Continue reading

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AlwaysUp Wins “Best Windows Utility” Award from Windows IT Pro Magazine

As AlwaysUp enters its 10th year of running any application as a Windows Service, we are excited to announce that readers of the popular Windows IT Pro Magazine have recognized it as a Best Windows Utility for 2013! AlwaysUp has … Continue reading

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Trouble running Google Drive 1.9 with AlwaysUp on Windows XP & Server 2003

Over the past couple of years, several of our customers have been using AlwaysUp to run Google Drive as a Windows Service. But this past week, two customers, one on Windows XP and another running Windows Server 2003, reported that … Continue reading

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