Possible duplicate of Keyboards not working...again
On Windows 10, Keyman 17.0.326 doesn’t start automatically on accounts that didn’t install it.
• Install Keyman
• Create a new Windows user (Standard), “john”
• Log in as john
• Start Keyman
• Install a keyboard
• Configure Keyman
◦ don’t show the splashscreen
◦ don’t automatically show the on-screen keyboard
◦ start Keyman when Windows starts
• Restart Windows (log out & in may suffice) and log in as john
• Wait a minute for startup programs to start
• Expand the tray to see if Keyman is running
Expected: Keyman is running
Actual: Keyman is not running
Keyman starts automatically on the account that installed it, as expected.
The ‘Start with Windows’ setting is a user preference, not a system preference. When you install Keyman as a single user using the Keyman installer, the preference of starting with Windows is selected in the installer options, because that’s the norm for most single-user PCs.
However, most multi-user PCs are in a managed environment, where per-user preferences can be deployed by administrators, and migrate from PC to PC, and so it doesn’t make sense to try and propagate user preferences between user accounts.
To resolve this, after logging in as the new user, open Keyman Configuration, and in the Options tab under Startup, select Start when Windows starts.
I did set that setting as the second user. Even though I set it, and the box is still checked after restarting, Keyman still doesn’t start automatically.
Send me a diagnostic report (from the second user login) (https://kmn.sh/kb40)
Check the Windows Startup Apps settings (Start Menu, type ‘startup apps’ on English Windows) – send me a screenshot of Keyman in that list (it’ll most likely be titled ‘Keyman Configuration’)