v1rtu0s1ty Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Hey guys, I have written an autoit program that launches a gui frontend. I don't want to use scheduler because it's not reliable most especially when machine is rebooted. Can I 've used srvany before to create a service out of a .exe. Will it work since it will be executing a gui? Thanks guys! Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LxP Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 I think that there are hassles regarding the extent that a service can interact with the user's desktop. Can you get away with using a Run/RunOnce/RunService registry entry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v1rtu0s1ty Posted July 23, 2005 Author Share Posted July 23, 2005 I think that there are hassles regarding the extent that a service can interact with the user's desktop. Can you get away with using a Run/RunOnce/RunService registry entry?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I didn't get what you mean? Can you please elaborate?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LxP Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 You don't need to use Task Scheduler to set a program to run on next startup. There are many ways to achieve this including creating an icon in the user's Startup menu, creating a registry entry under any of these keys:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOncedepending on whether you want your program to run on just the next reboot or on every reboot.I don't know more about services than I need to, but I remember having problems with a program that wanted to interact with the desktop (e.g. GUI) -- Windows wouldn't let it do anything until I fiddled around with settings (which is understandable because a service generally isn't meant to have such functionality -- it's a service). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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