Is there any way to do this or add to WD a way save and close WD? We’ve had so many storms and power outages and even though I have WD on a laptop as the battery runs out and windows closes WD never closes gracefully. I just spent hours rebuilding log files to get WD back in shape. It would be great if on low power I could run a task running WeatherDisplay.exe with a switch to save the settings and close the prog.
AFAIK that just kills the task, it’s not necessarily equivalent to a graceful “save and exit”.
I use a program created with a windows automation software to automatically “save and exit” WD but it’s very PC dependent so I won’t share it. You could do the same with AutoIt which is free.
Thanks, Geoff but I’m not sure that would do what I want, plus I need WD to stay running as long as possible on battery in case the power returns.
Niko, you gave me a couple of good ideas. I did try Googling software for that between power outages but must have chosen poor keywords! Sometimes windows goes down and WD is OK but sometimes…what a mess! This last outage not only did some log files get trashed but when I did get the generator running the snow from yesterday on my heated rain gauge became the liquid from today. so I spent time approximating the liquid equivalent for each day to the snowfall.
Roger