How can i load a program before windows logging in? adding a shortcut into a StartUp dirrectory did not help me

Hesham Yassin

MatrixCoder

As a security measure, you cannot run programs before Windows login.

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Dave Kreskowiak

You've asked this question before, gotten a bunch of answers, and chose to ignore them. You're already been told - in order to run an application at Windows startup, you'd have to write it as a Windows Service.

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Vikram A Punathambekar

You have to write a Windows service.

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Colin Angus Mackay

MatrixCoder wrote:

As a security measure, you cannot run programs before Windows login.

You can run programs before windows login. They are called Windows Services.

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