emmanuel - Thanks for your comments. Had looked into "desktop interaction enabled", but was not sure if I should change autoit in services, the au3 or the exe. In addition,. was not sure how to add any of the three as a service, but because I was running an au3 with autoit installed, I could have enabled "desktop interaction enabled" for it, but wanted to check with the sys admin first
Thanks for your input, I'll do some digging, any hints would be greatly appreciated