root_startup

adding startup scripts/programs executed as admin (from here):

method 1

• open 'Task Scheduler'

• click 'Create Task'

• in 'General' tab:

  • select name, e.g. 'run-sync-time'
  • tick 'Run only when user is logged on' or 'Run whether user is logged on or not' (mainly using latter, but see below where former is needed, e.g. ahk's keybindings)
  • tick 'Run with highest privileges'

• in 'Triggers' tab, add New and Begin the task->At startup

  • or alternatively 'At logon' & Specific user: select your user (or just go w/ Any user)
  • again, see below where At startup won't work (e.g. ahk's keybindings)

• in 'Actions' tab, choose 'Start a program' from dropdown add new and point script/program path to target

• in 'Conditions' tab, at the botton under 'Network' section, tick 'Start only if...', and select 'Network' from dropdown

  • !! nope, looks like it's broken. if you Enable All Tasks History and reproduce, then in task's History tab I got Task Category: Launch condition not met, network unavailable. Instead of this condition, just add a delay under the trigger: advanced settings -> delay for X seconds. Or add network-waiting loop in the script itself.

• note root_startup/ dir also contains some exported task scheduler jobs (.xml) as reference

  • important: for our super-L-idle-lock.ahk to actually run, we had to change Trigger to At log on of any user under Triggers tab; and to make sure the keybinds defined in it also work, Run only when user is logged on had to be selected under General tab. also not a bad idea to untick Stop the task if it runs longer than: under Settings tab. This info comes, more-or-less, from this AHK forum post

method 2 (doesn't work)

• create link/shortcut to startup folder (ctrl+r -> shell:startup)
• right click on shortcut -> properties -> shortcut tab -> advanced -> tick run as administrator
• as noted, this method doesn't work. haven't tested, but it's possible to get it to work if our program is launched by a vbscript wrapper, see this superuser answer