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Hi! Short question: What is the current best way to run another command line .exe when DVBViewer pro starts - whether by timer (no plugins or services) or manually? Alternatively: Does someone have a working DVBViewer + Win7 64-bit + TechniSat DVB-PC TV Star PCI card setup? How did you do it? ---------------------------------------------- Longer stuff: The actual problem: I recently migrated my years old DVBViewer system XP -> Win7 64-bit, DVBViewer very_old -> 5.2.9.0. My TechniSat Airstar PCI-card is not playing along nicely, though: The newest driver from TechniSat (4.6.0.9999, 2010) gets stuck when waking up from hibernation. There are also BDA drivers, but they are even worse: If I close the graph and try to retune a channel, both video and audio start clipping. After that I didn't find any other way to normalize the situation than a reboot. With the non-BDA drivers a disable - enable driver cycle seems to do the trick. Half-solution: Taken from an older forum discussion, this seems to get the driver running: > C:\bin\devmanview.exe /disable_enable "TechniSat DVB-PC TV Star PCI" However using the windows task scheduler to run this "on workstation unlock" or "at log on" or both hasn't produced a reliable result - at the latest the second consecutive timer recording will fail, because the TechniSat driver is stuck. Running the disable-enable manually typically gets the driver running, but something more reliable is needed. I don't even need to do the disable_enable cycle every time the computer starts. It would be better and enough to do it whenever DVBViewer starts. Trying to figure out how to do that, I got stuck with instructions from 2004-2008, which may not be valid anymore: 1) make a batch script and change scheduler.ini so that a .bat-script is run instead of DVBViewer.exe. This would sound promising, but my current installation doesn't have a scheduler.ini. I don't know if one is used anymore (?) or what would be the default content if I made one? Which folder should I put it in, program or configuration? 2) use the "-x" parameter to trigger a script. The command line parameter would nicely go into "scheduler settings", but I couldn't find instructions how exactly to use it. This post from Lars in 2006 comes closest: "Then start the DVBViewer with the commandline DVBViewer.exe -x[your-commandNr]. This should work without problems. For the definitions of the commands.vbs have a look into the com-Doku I think I wrote every needed there." The sizable "DVBViewer COM Interface" documentation is from 2006, still valid? I couldn't find a "commands.vbs" in my current installation, but "actions.ini" might be something similar? Also, I don't have experience in writing .vbs-scripts. All help appreciated! Mikko