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System settings & running in the background
Three switches on the home screen#
- Start with Windows: Vminer opens when the PC boots.
- Start mining when app opens: mining starts as soon as it opens — no need to click Start.
- Hide on close: clicking X doesn't quit; it hides in the tray. Double-click the tray icon to reopen.
System Settings#
Each card's description is in the "?" next to its title - hover to show it.
- Automatic seamless updates: a downloaded and verified update restarts Vminer by itself.
- Auto restart on failure: when mining hits a fault that restarting the miner cannot fix, Vminer restarts itself (mining background program not responding) or the PC (GPU driver crash or hung GPU), and mining resumes; there is a 60-second window to cancel a PC restart. Faults a restart cannot fix (unsupported GPU, not enough virtual memory) do not trigger a restart; mining stops and the reason is shown.
- Take a 5-minute break: after 24 or 48 hours of continuous mining, pause for 5 minutes, then resume by itself.
- Scheduled mining: start and stop at set times every day using this PC's clock, 24-hour, hour and minute in separate boxes. Leave Stop as "-" to keep mining after the start time. A manual stop during the scheduled hours is respected until the next day's start time. Not available while Netbar Mode is on.
- One-click allow Vminer: use it when antivirus deletes the miner.
Automatic updates are unavailable while Netbar Mode is enabled. Update the client version in the master disk image manually; alternatively, find the master disk's fixed worker name in the fleet console and click Manual update.
Network recovery: temporary outages, connection timeouts and resets keep retrying with increasing, bounded delays; mining does not stop after two retries. A running mining process reconnects itself; startup is retried only if the process has exited or startup temporarily fails. Direct keeps your selected node and explicit proxy without switching to CF or another pool. Repeated CF failures may use a same-pool backup route when policy permits. Stop, Netbar yielding, scheduled breaks, exit and version updates cancel pending recovery. GPU faults, permanent login rejection, missing files and invalid parameters still stop mining instead of restarting forever. Initial verification remains required; temporary heartbeat or verification-service outages do not interrupt existing mining.
Turning Netbar Mode off does not turn automatic client updates back on; enable them manually in System Settings if needed.