Setting scheduled task to interact with desktop

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I've created a scheduled task to run at "startup" on a
Windows 2000 server. Essentially, the task runs as
process, but does not show up as an application in task
manager, nor does the application showup on the user's
desktop. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Rick
 
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I've created a scheduled task to run at "startup" on a
Windows 2000 server. Essentially, the task runs as
process, but does not show up as an application in task
manager, nor does the application showup on the user's
desktop. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Rick
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You can make tasks visible by running them under the same
account as the currently logged on user. However, since you
run the task at "startup", it will never be visible because nobody
is logged on at startup time!

One way to resolve the issue would be to run the task at
logon time, not at startup time. Another way is to place a link
to the executable into the "All Users" Startup folder.
 
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