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23 VOTE
Status SUBMITTED
Created by Tue Zilba
Created on Apr 11, 2021

Force app startup after installation/update

Some programs does not start automatically after update/installation, looking at you Cisco 😠.

Currently this can only be achieved with a combination of post-installation scripts and scheduled tasks. This being quite a hassle to develop for each app, it would be neat to have a built-in option to force a start of the app, when it is done installing/updating.

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  • Brian Kaiser
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    Sep 14, 2023

    We would also like this especially for apps for that have conflicting processes configured. The process must close to update, but if it was open, then it should re-open when the update is complete.

  • Guest
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    Dec 30, 2022

    Has there been any update on this? Zoom still doesn't launch after update, and Zoom has become rather popular over the last 3 years.

  • Rob Jackson
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    Dec 16, 2021

    This has been requested by my company also. We use the custom notification to allow colleagues to defer or close apps during the update...but it would be great if there was an option to automatically re-launch the application post update.

    Zoom and Jabber are prime examples of where this would be great


  • Claudio Mendes
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    Apr 28, 2021

    it would be nice for those apps that dont have such setting or depend on a service

  • Claudio Mendes
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    Apr 28, 2021

    +1 eventually also set the app shortcut to the startup folder shell:startup and then just launch it or not

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6 VOTE

Restart the application(s) that were closed when user chose Close All and Update

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You have the amazing feature of detecting when apps/processes are running and we can prompt the user to Close it/them before updating. This works great, but it would be even more amazing if it also could start the app(s) that were closed when t...
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