[Privoxy-users] Privoxy and Windows 8.1

[Lee]

On 5/3/22, flieger<at>sonic.net <flieger at sonic.net> wrote:
> I'm having a very difficult time getting Privoxy to be started at windows
> boot.  It's Win 8.1 Pro 64-bit on a ThinkPad
> T540p, 16GB of RAM.  Everything boots fine and all the startup programs
> invoke correctly except Privoxy.  I'm
> trying to load 3.0.32 (several times) but also dropped back once to 3.0.28
> to confirm it's not a version problem.
>
> I can invoke Privoxy from a shortcut but not the Startup menu.  I have run a
> log which comes up clean from the
> shortcut but is not created at boot time so it appears that windows isn't
> even trying to start it.  Privoxy was installed
> using the startup option and everything has admin privileges.
>
> Task Manger's Startup tab shows Privoxy with status "Enabled" and Startup
> Impact as "Not measured"
>
> Any help getting Privoxy enabled at boot time would be greatly apreciated!


https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/windows-10-startup-folder.html
to enable ‘Show hidden files, folders, and drives’ option in Windows Explorer.

Then check the existing startup shortcut -
<winkey>r and enter shell:common startup  (<winkey>r  shell:startup
for the per-user startup location) double-click on the shortcut and
see if privoxy starts.  If not... try creating a new shortcut and see
if that works.

Regards
Lee