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# I right clicked on the "CumulusMX.exe" entry in the top level folder and selected '''Send to ... desktop (create shortcut) '''. On the same right click menu I also selected '''Pin to taskbar'''. [When I am happy with MX, I can copy the shortcut into '''C:\Users\Personal\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\''' and then MX will start automatically after I (or Windows Update) reboot my PC].
# I clicked on one of my new shortcuts. '''Windows Defender''' popped up, so I told it '''allow all''' for Cumulus MX.
# I opened my Internet Security premium package, in the "unrecognised files" section I selected CumulusMX.exe then right clicked and selected '''Change File Rating to Trusted''' (I will need to repeat this every time a new version is installed) and in the "Firewall" section of the Internet Security package I added port '''8998''' as one that was permitted.
# I right clicked on my desktop (you may need to right click ''on the windows symbol at bottom left''), selected '''command prompt as administrator''' that opened a command window where I typed
netsh http add urlacl url=http://http://192.168.1.64:8998/ user=\users
and I got the response "URL reservation successfully added", so I know it worked. This command is apparently to allow all users to bind to port 8998 (i.e. that used for the Cumulus interface). This also means ''you don't have to run the engine (CumulusMX.exe) in an administrator user, nor select "Run as administrator" from right click menu on the shortcut'', nor set the properties for any shortcut to run in any special way.
▲Finally, I viewed my hub (router) to see the IPv4 address allocated to my Cumulus MX computer (192.168.1.64), that told me that I would find the user interface by typing "http://192.168.1.64:8998/" into my browser while the MX engine command window remains open (so MX is actually running), so I typed that and I saw the user interface and navigated around it.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I don't use "localhost:8998" for two reasons, first I already have a web server on my PC at IPv4 "127.0.0.1" using "localhost" as an alternative name (and port 81, selected because something called 'Skype' that I don't use had reserved port 80 that I had expected to use), and second using the IPv4 exact "http://192.168.1.64:8998/" address as a bookmark, I can view the Cumulus user interface on my mobile phone which shares bookmarks with my PC and connects to my LAN via wifi.
When I am happy to stop using MX, I type '''Control + C''' into that MX command window on my PC and MX closes.
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