Assemble at the Start Line. The Beta is About to Begin

[roland]

For people facing trouble starting nodes (stuck in added state), especially in windows, I think the following steps might work.

For nodes stuck in ‘added’ state:

1. Download the latest launchpad, extract exe, right click exe and run as admin. (latest Release node-launchpad-v0.3.9 · maidsafe/autonomi · GitHub). If you did not run as admin, the launchpad will close immediately.
2. Ctrl + R and type in reset to reset your nodes. This would remove all the nodes that you see inside Node Status
3. Reboot your PC
4. Run Services application from windows search. Now make sure no safenode services are running, if you see any, such as safenode1 or safenode2 etc, then you have to follow the next section.
5. Run latest launchpad as admin again, you should see 0 nodes here because of the prior reset.
6. Start nodes (after entering discord id). Now you should see NAT detection running for a couple mintures and then nodes displayed as RUNNING

To remove services manually (windows)

1. Start terminal as administrator
2. Run C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe delete safenode1 .. C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe delete safenode2 .. for all your safenode services (run Services in windows search to see all the running services. Don’t delete any other service other than safenode, it might cause your windows to malfunction.)
3. After deleting the services, remove these folders:
   C:\ProgramData\safenode
C:\ProgramData\safenode-manager
4. Reboot PC and you should see the services removed inside Services application. Now you can use the launchpad to run nodes.