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Windows Final Setup Simplified

miigotu edited this page Feb 21, 2024 · 3 revisions

This is an after-install for sickchill on windows to get it working with mapped drives AND auto updates. You can perform these actions many times without harming anything, so you can just run through this to fix any issues. For the full version see Windows After Install

  1. Admin console:
 cd C:\SickChill\Installer
 nssm edit sickchill
 # on the `Log on` tab, select the radio option next to `This account:` and set the username and password for the account that made your shares
 # stop the sickchill service
 net stopSickChill

 # uninstall all packages installed by admin into the sickchill environment
 C:\SickChill\Python3\tools\python.exe -m pip freeze > requirements.txt
 C:\SickChill\Python3\tools\python.exe -m pip uninstall -yr requirements.txt
  1. User console:
 # install sickchill as user
 C:\SickChill\Python3\tools\python.exe -m pip install -U sickchill
 reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "EnableLinkedConnections" /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001 /f
 # powershell
 # New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System' -Name EnableLinkedConnections -Value 1 -PropertyType 'DWord'
  1. Admin console:
 # start sickchill service
 net start sickchill