How do I hide a startup process.....run it silently in the backgro

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I have locked down the user profiles on my network where domain users log in
and all they have access to is one application that is set to autorun upon
login. The security on all workstations is extremely tight. Users can log
in, and use one application that autoruns. There is no internet or email
access, they cannot access the local hard drives, print, plug in USB devices
etc. When they login, an application starts and thats all they can use.....I
have even disabled the start menu and hidden all the processes that startup
in the system tray.

I have a couple of machines on the network that I have installed webcams on
and setup the XP powertoy timershot.exe to run at startup and take snapshots
every 1 minute and it sends that data to a network share. The problem is
that the Timershot XP powertoy launches at startup where it is visible to the
users. Is there a way to tell it to run silently upon startup so it runs as
a background process with no user intervention. This would be ideal since
users cannot access task manager to end it, and they would never know it is
running.

I'm assuming there might be a registry key I can add/edit to make this
happen. Possibly a change to the syntax of the:

HKLM\Software\Micrososft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key that starts up
C:\windows\system32\timershot.exe

I tried putting a /s at the end ( ex. "C:\windows\system32\tmershot.exe"
/s ), but that did not make any difference.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. It would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Phillip Lee
 
some progams when run from a script or command line will come with a /s
for silent running

ex: timershot.exe /s

you might want to try looking through the programs faq or trying to
make a hidden batch file for it to run.
 
Ok, I have created a login script/batch file with the following line

start /MIN timershot.exe

The script works, but timershot still opens up where it is visible to the
users. I also tried it with the /s syntax at the end with the same results.
I just want it to start up hidden/minimized so that the clients will not see
it. The program automatically minimizes to the system tray when you click
the minimize button, but there is no options for the program where you can
tell it to minimize to the system tray at startup.

Any more suggestions?

Thx in advance...

Phillip Lee
 
you may want to look up a program called "tray it!" it will allow you
to minimize any program to the task tray.
thats all i have. sorry.
 
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