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I'm like a dog with a bone - I cant let stuff go - So - I coded a solution - for anyone else in my situation and wants to boot with "Favourites" on, regardless of what you had last run - I created a simple AHK - that needs to run before PinballX - so I put it in the PinballX.bat file like so : start /min set_favs.exe start "" pinballx.exe The set_favs.ahk AHK looks like this, and has to be compiled - we need to modify the PinballX ini file before PinballX runs, which is why we have to use the .bat file . FileRead, configfile, c:\PinballX\Config\PinballX.ini if not ErrorLevel ; Successfully loaded. { found:=regexmatch(configfile,"filter_favorites=False") if ( found > 0 ) { StringReplace, configfile, configfile, filter_favorites=False , filter_favorites=True configfile:=RegExReplace(configfile, "filtername=(.*)" , "filtername=Favourite Tables") configfile:=RegExReplace(configfile, "lastselected=(.*)" , "lastselected=") FileMove, c:\PinballX\Config\PinballX.ini, c:\PinballX\Config\PinballX.bak, 1 FileAppend, %configfile%, c:\PinballX\Config\PinballX.ini DllCall("FlushFileBuffers") } } ExitApp This all presumes your PinballX install is in c:\PinballX And thats it - Favourites will always be set on boot, or restart, regardless. Just watch "Favourites" spelling. I'm in the UK, so I use British spelling. I've changed it in the settings to use the correct local spelling - so if you use this, and you are in the US, make sure you change "Favourite" in the code above to "Favorite"

Good job Mike!

No problem. Glad I could help you.

Mike_da_Spik Thanks for your help. With your help I have my PinballX looking and working awesome. I am Grateful for your efforts to help me sort out my issues. And a real fine job you have done Sir. Thank You!!

Nice solution. But, i just learned my grandkids, to use the shutdown option in exit menu. They know, when they do a hard power off the cabinet that grandpa get grumpy and they are not allowed to touch the cabinet for a while Tell me about it ! Check the main screen of Databasemanager and you see the favourites as well. Set the language to US and it is 'favorites' again. Thats what you get when programing with an UK guy (otherwise you should only have Denglish words )

The correct spelling! Just a thought, but you might also be able to just set the pinballx.ini file as read only instead so the last selected list doesn't get updated on exit. Obviously you'd need to remember to change it back if you wanted to change any of your config settings. Should work (but not tried it).

Hi Mike - After your post above I did some tests my end. Turns out PinballX DOES record and set the last list or system you had - so it will start up with that list or system on next startup - including favourites. But - and here's the big but - instead of recording it at the time its set, PinballX only records the current active list/system when you exit cleanly via the menus. (ie, ESC, then select "reboot", "exit", or "shutdown"). However - if you shutdown (like everyone in my house does) by hitting the momentary switch at the base of the cabinet (which causes windows to shutdown cleanly, but force terminates anything running) - it will NEVER set this. So that's why on my cabinet it always starts on "All Tables" - no matter what it was on last time it was used. Now that I know it works this way, I have a good workaround - because I can set it to favourites, restart via PinballX - and then forever after it will stay on favourites on bootup, even if someone changes it last time the cabinet was used... Thats a win for me.... But perhaps a nice feature might be an option in PinballX to start on a specific list or system regardless of what it was last time you cleanly exited? Just a thought. thanks.