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Re: Launch a windows application from crontab
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: carl <piranhaklaus at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 23:22:46 +0400
- Subject: Re: Launch a windows application from crontab
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, carl!
> Hi,
> im working with windows 7 and have the same problem if i want to run a
> windows application from cron.
> the problem for me: if i active "Allow service to interact with desktop" i
> had to switch to local user and then the cron service doesn't work anymore.
> is there a solution for this problem menawhile?
No. Windows Vista and up use a separate desktop (session 0) to run services.
Users simply not see the launched application, unless a big amount of Voodoo
is applied.
Simple answer is - don't do that.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 08.02.2014, <23:13>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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