Making Velocity Start When You Reboot
Microsoft announced a new distributed caching application, code name ‘Velocity’, at TechEd. Since then I have been sort of toying with it and I have my issues and dealing with the learning curve. One thing I kept noticing and had a hard time finding was a way to make Velocity start when I rebooted the computer.
Turns out Velocity runs as a Windows service, and thus you need to set the start options. First find it the list of the services, it is called “Microsoft project code named ‘Velocity’. Then double-click this item in the list and the properties dialog will be displayed.
I chose to set the Startup type to Automatic (Delayed Start). I think this means it will start when I reboot, but essentially be prioritized after getting back into my Vista machine (perceived user performance). Next if you are are not running, you can click the ‘Start’ button to start Velocity. The other alternative is to bring up the command line administration tool.