Starting a Windows® client

This topic provides information for starting a Windows-based client.

Context

In a typical setup, the Windows-based client starts automatically when the machine is booted. If your machine is not set up to start automatically, you can start the client manually.

Steps

  1. Edit the Windows registry by typing regedt32 and pressing Enter.
  2. Navigate to the start key: \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services \STFS
  3. Double-click Start and change the value to 3 to enable the client from starting automatically when the machine is booted.
  4. Click OK to close the window.
  5. Reboot.

Parent topic: Starting a client

Related concepts
Clients

Related tasks
Stopping a Windows client

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