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Re: Launch a windows application from crontab
- From: carl <piranhaklaus at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:13:54 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Launch a windows application from crontab
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Andrey Repin wrote
> 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.
>
>
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (
> anrdaemon@
> ) 08.02.2014, <23:13>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
Hi Andrey,
thank you for your answer!
I feared it :(
What possibilities remain to me with a win7 system? The background for my
problem is a windows application that sometimes crashes silently (it is
still open but doesn't do what it should) and had to be restarted.
A big amount of Voodoo sounds interesting ;-) but perhabs I should simply
use windows scheduled tasks?
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