Autostart - users/uac - Scheduler

Hi, I'm not overly familiar with Windows but I've been using Vista64 on my sxps 1640 since I bought it last year. As a long time Linux user I'd set it up with a root/admin account and a user account, where the former is never used - I just type in the prompted password when higher privileges are required. I'm happy with this & most of what UAC does, it may be a nag but at least it adds a thin layer of security & I've certainly had no issues there.

There is however one annoyance which I hope someone here will have an answer to. I've used the task scheduler to run command-line applications upon user logon using the ' system' account. This is great - need to change hdd parameters, it does it without bothering me - after all I had to be root/admin to set it up... Now comes the problem - GUI applications. Any gui seems to need running by the logged on user, not by ' system' or an admin account & so any scheduled task fails unless it's set to run by the user (subsequently asking for the admin password).

I've tried registry entries as you'd do with XP, a vbscript that passed admin account and password to the requesting process, and a whole lot of other messing around. Unless I both run as admin & set admin to run the task, no GUI wants to play ball. I'm simply wanting either ThrottleStop or RMClock to run without my intervention upon user logon.

Thanks for your patience in reading that little lot & I look forward to your replies.

Tony.

 

In your ordinary user account, follow these instructions:

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC | ZDNet

but you can skip step 5 about creating the shortcut (unless you want that). Also if you want this to run at logon you'll need to check the appropriate box for that.

 

"This technique works only if your account is already a member of the Administrators group. If you’ve set yourself up with a Standard account, you can’t use this trick."

 

Woops... sorry.