How uninstall Minimwatch

[simoncn]

Welcome to the MinimServer forum! There is no need for you to either stop or uninstall MinimWatch. The grey "minims and stave" desktop icon is a launch icon for MinimWatch. It is always grey (by design) and this is not a problem. Everything you have described indicates that MinimWatch is working correctly.

Double-clicking the MinimWatch desktop icon creates a small icon (single minim note) in the system tray. This icon monitors (watches) the MinimServer instance running on your QNAP NAS and changes colour depending on the state of that instance. Green indicates that MinimServer is running normally and grey (for the system tray icon) indicates that MinimWatch cannot see any MinimServer instances.

There is more information about this on this page, this page and this page.

If you ever do need to uninstall MinimWatch, you can stop MinimWatch by right-clicking the system tray icon and selecting Exit.

When you selected Stop from the minim icon, you stopped the MinimServer media server component on your QNAP NAS. When you then selected Close, you stopped the MinimServer application on the NAS. To restart MinimServer on the NAS, you need to open QNAP QTS App Center and select Start on the MinimServer icon there.

You will get the hang of all this soon.