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In Windows 2k, how do you run an app that doesn't close when you logout?

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Pakaderm

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My wife and I have different accounts on my 2K box. I'd like to be logged in, start an app (downloading a file) and be able to log out so she can log in but Windows continues to download the file. Is there a way to do this?

-Pak
 
Locking the system will not help in this case. You have two options, find a service that will download files (don't know of any offhand) or move to XP which supports the fast user switching (e.g. you can leave your program running and then switch to your wife)

Bill
 
This can't be done.

When you log in, the OS creates a desktop for you. All the apps you launch run in this desktop. When you log out, the desktop is destroyed, so all apps running in that desktop need to go bye-bye.

There are two options:

First, you can use terminal services, which allows multiple users to connect to an OS and will allow you to "disconnect" your session instead of logging out. When you "disconnect," your physical keyboard/mouse/monitor go bye-bye, but the logical desktop stays. (I know of no way to log into a TS session and then disconnect from the console. If anyone knows if this is possible, please let me konw.) You would unfortunately need a remote machine to log in to.

Under Windows XP that's not part of a domain, you could use Fast User Switching, which is essentially terminal services from the local console.

Lastly, you could write a service. A service is an app that runs under Winlogon's desktop (I think) and can run when no one is logged in.

I'm not sure if any of these solutions will work for you, but at least now you know the nuts and bolts of why you can't do this.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I'm not sure if any of these options will work, so it sounds like I can't do it. No problem, I was just wondering if I could.

-Pak
 
I know that Win2k with some security features will not let you leave things running and be logged off. You can however, try to put something on the startup folder, so it starts when people log in.
 
> It's *VERY* possible

This really doesn't help. Servany from the resource kit does the same thing, it's not too usefull to setup a gozilla (or some other downloader) as a service if you don't have a UI to use to add files to the queue.

Bill
 
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