Items in startup

[Razors Edge]

I have a 2 things in my startup folder of my windows 2000 server I need to start if the server is ever rebooted for some reason, But for the past week now when my server was rebooted, none of the items would start untill I logon to the server, then they would start. Is thier a way I make this automatic without me logging into the server?

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[Ron]

What you are looking for is a service. Things in the startup folder will only 'startup' when you login because they are located in a user enviroment.

checkout FireDaemon:
http://www.firedaemon.com

[flc]

You can also try setting up a scheduled task to run At System Startup.

[KyleMulligan]

If you need it to startup at boot and run in the background perpetually, then the best way is to set it up as a Windows service. This also makes sure it restarts on its own if it ever crashes.

[Razors Edge]

Thank you everyone for the help. I will get to work on this tonight. Thank you once again.

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