run application before login to windows

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hi,
how to implement solution for run application before the login to windows?

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Posted 31-Jan-11 3:45am

Mohammad Etedali

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Henry Minute 31-Jan-11 9:53am

I think you will have to explain a little more about what it is that you are trying to do. i.e. what sort of application.

Manas Bhardwaj 31-Jan-11 9:56am

Can you please explain further? Or may be what exactly your requirements are...

TheyCallMeMrJames 31-Jan-11 9:56am

Does it need to be run in Windows? Does it require networking? Is the computer on a domain? These (and more) are all details which will drive the answer to this question.

Sandeep Mewara 31-Jan-11 10:01am

Question is not clear. Kindly elaborate.

Abhinav S 31-Jan-11 11:09am

Not clear.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-31T03:59:00

You need to develop a different type of project: Windows Service. Visual Studio provides a template to develop those. I'm not sure if this is what you need: it will be invisible process which could communicate with other programs using remoting, WCF, etc. To debug this things, you may need to log some information to system event log, or attach debugger to already running process, way more difficult in comparison to debugging of a regular application.

Look at the list of services, run:

%SystemRoot%\system32\services.msc /s

It will show system applet "Services". You executable should run as one more item in the list. Click context menu on any item. This is where you can Start, Stop the service, etc. Select "Properties". What happens on system startup, depends on startup type. If it is manual, you will need to go to this applet and Start it, in Automatic, it will be started before the first login, as you want. No matter how started, it will keep running if you log out.

Good luck,

—SA