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running schtasks as system user do not bring up the GUI of thelaunched application

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Hi

 

 

 

I am trying to launch notepad.exe and if someone closes it, I will

 

bring it back up (polling one time every minute).

 

 

 

For this I am using schtasks

 

 

 

When I run schtasks as the currently logged in user I have no problem

 

at all. I am using the following command:

 

schtasks /create /sc minute /mo 1 /tn "notepad_task" /tr "\"C:\WINNT

 

\notepad.exe\""

 

 

 

But I want to start this as system user. I therefore add the /ru

 

system to the end of the command. The command now looks the following:

 

schtasks /create /sc minute /mo 1 /tn "notepad_task" /tr "\"C:\WINNT

 

\notepad.exe\"" /ru system

 

 

 

The problem is that even though this command will launch a notepad.exe

 

(I see it in the process list), the notepad.exe application is not

 

visible on screen, nor is it visible in the taskbar.

 

 

 

Why is this, and how can I make it visible when running it as user

 

"system"?

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