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How to force an application to run at WinXP boot time?

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Epsil0n00

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I spend so much time making sure useless apps and spyware don't start at boot time... I feel silly asking this.

I admin a server that has a poorly written piece of server software which doesn't startup automatically when Windows starts... you have to login and double-click the server app to get it started. I placed it in the 'startup' folder, which has helped some... but if the machine restarts for some reason and we don't remember to login in order to get that server app running, then the server isn't running as it should, etc.

Heres the question:
How do you force an application to startup when Windows is loaded, before anyone logs in. The goal is that we could just turn this machine on and let it sit at the login window but have it running all the necessary stuff from boottime.

OS: Windows XP Pro -- Can this be done on a non-server version of Windows?

Thanks!
Eps.
 
Thank you for the recommendation--that looks like it might very well do the trick. I'll write back and let you know if it works.

Thanks!
Epsil0n
 
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