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My scope cards suffer from the problem that their contacts have become dirty.
This means that, whenever I boot windows, there's about a 50/50 chance that the scope card will not work. The solution to this is to reach behind the tower, wiggle the cable harness coming out of the back of the Scope card, and then re-start sfp.exe.

This gets tiresome.

To alleviate the process, I have written the following simple *.batch file to restart sfp.exe with one click.

Simply save this as restartSFP.bat and store it in your start menu or wherever is convenient for you.

HTH

restartSFP.bat
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REM kill the scope process
taskkill /IM sfp.exe
REM this just introduces a short delay whilst the scope process is closed
ping localhost >nul
REM re-load scope
C:ScopeAppBinsfp.exe

Nice workaround, asktoby

Just to add some more options, here's my favorite Scope starting line:
"start /low C:/Scope/App/Bin/SFP.exe -s"

The "start /low" starts Scope in low priority mode, reducing amount of occasional clicks when big mixer panels (with lots of VU) are shown. The "-s" switch starts SFP in the tray, with StartProject.pro instead of the full NewProject.pro project.

Enjoy!

at0m,
Is this trick something I could use? I'm looking 4 all the tips I can get 4 my new DAW.

no, it's just the proof that after more than 20 years of GUI programming the command line is still there and about to stay forever...
(M$ always had it and Apple just fell back to the shell script)
[kidding off]

anyway Jimmy, for your 'live' application I'd just set 'startup' and 'new project' to the specific one you use on stage (in preferences dialog and make startup-project active).
Then Scope will always come up with that thing regardless of reboot or manual restart.
I assume you don't switch projects during the gig (?)

the 'low priority' switch may be worth a try though, as you have Giga on the same machine (if I remember correctly)

cheers, Tom