Making nzbdrone start from boot and not from cli

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Hi all i have drone working with at the moment with nzbget.
But i bith have to run them from cli from my win7 laptop.
So i have to leave both consoles running to let it al work.
Now i want to have start nzbdrone and nzbget to start both at boot so without to start them both with my cli.
Is there anyone who can guide me with this?

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it is a fairly simple process what you want to do is run it as a service fortunately there is a easy way to do this

go into your nzbdrone folder

it should be C:\ProgramData\NzbDrone\

then go into the “bin” folder

in there you will find a .exe called "ServiceInstall (it will be a green jigsaw piece)

right click on this and go to “Run As Administrator” this will then have a small command line pop up for a few seconds then it will dissapear this has now made it so NzbDrone starts at boot without having to open anything to check it is working open your task manager and select “Services” then find NzbDrone in the list and it should say status is running

As for Nzbget i know there is a similar guide to get that to install as a service but it requires a little more than just running a .exe file

here is a guide for it

http://nzbget.net/Installation_on_Windows#Service

I know this works as i have tried it before although i don’t use Nzbget i have tried it in the past and followed these instructions and they worked just fine

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Or run NzbDrone.exe instead of NzbDrone.Console.exe

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yes there is this option as well he could either manually run this everytime on startup or move into the startup folder

I figured service might be just as easy and that is the way i did it so…

either way is good just choose what you prefer

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Sorry for my late reply but i am running it on my freebsd server so tips for windows won’t work.

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You made no mention of that in your original post, but did mention win7.

FreeBSD is covered on the WIKI: https://github.com/NzbDrone/NzbDrone/wiki/Autostart-on-Linux#freebsdfreenas

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Yes as @markus101 mentioned it would have helped if you mentioned your OS in the original post it is mostly assumed here that you would be using Windows unless specified otherwise as NzbDrone was originally developed for the Windows Platform then in future releases it gained support for alternatives such as Linux, Freebsd etc…

I unfortunately cannot help you with that as i have no experience with Freebsd and only very limited knowledge of Linux my main focus has been windows so that is where i can try to be helpful otherwise it is best to mention it in the post so those who have that knowledge can contribute possible solutions

Best of luck though hopefully the link @markus101 posted for you will help