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How to make your MT4, MT5 automatically start after a VPS reboot?

Sometimes the Forex VPS gets rebooted, or you might need to reboot the forex VPS for some reason. In that case, you can setu the MetaTrader 4, 5 to automatically start after a reboot. Starting the MetaTrader automatically, you don’t need to manually start the MetaTrader 4, 5 (MT4, MT5) application.


Step 1: Add MT4/MT5 to shell:common startup

1. Login into Forex Windows VPS.

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2. Open Run using shortcut WINDOWS + R.

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3. Run the following command → Click on OK.

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4. Right-click on the dialogue box → Click on New Click on Shortcut.

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5. Next, click on Browse.

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6. Select MetaTrader application Click on OK.

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7. To proceed further → Click on Next.

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8. Finally, name the shortcut Click on Finish.

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9. Congratulations! You have successfully configured the MetaTrader (MT4, MT5) application to start automatically even after reboot. But your applications will only automatically start up after you login to your VPS. If you want your applications automatically be started up even if you do not login to your server, please follow step 2 below.

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Step 2: Auto startup MT4/MT5 even when not logging into your VPS

1. Login to your VPS and go to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon

And click Download Autologon

2. Open the downloaded folder and extract it to your VPS

3. Run Autologon

4. Enter your server credentials

Username = Administrator

Domain = Your server IP

Passwprd = Your server password

5. Restart your server and your applications will automatically start up without logging into your server


Troubleshooting (if no data is loaded and Metatrader asks to create account/enter credentials)

If after setting up by following steps 1 and 2 above and restarting your server, no data is loaded and MT4/5 requires you to create account/enter credentials while you have already entered your login details before

The reason: Without either UAC (User Account Control) or active RDP session, Metatrader will use local installation folder. So if user initially setup mt4/5 using rdp (data is created in %appdata% folder and not the installation folder), and when autologon runs the MT4/5, it will try to use data in installation folder instead (since UAC is disabled by default and there is no RDP session), leading to no data being loaded.

Please follow the following to enable UAC:

Step 1: Search Change User Account Control settings and open it

Step 2: Drag the selection bar up to level 1 Notify me only when apps try to make changes to my computer (do not dim my desktop)

Then click OK

Windows will ask you to restart your server

Step 3: Restart your server

UAC will be enabled after this, but less strict.


In the article, we went through how to make your MetaTrader 4/5 (MT4, MT5 ) automatically start after a VPS reboot. Automatically starting MT4 and MT5 will save your time manually starting the MetaTrader application and directly starting the forex trading.

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Updated on September 26, 2024

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