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Sorry for the delay. &nbsp;I was hoping someone might offer some internal to windows feature, but your answer is great, and the direction I thought I would have to go to.<br />

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Sorry for the delay.  I was hoping someone might offer some internal to windows feature, but your answer is great, and the direction I thought I would have to go to.


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I have a program that we have been running from the cmd prompt. &nbsp;It is a daemon process, that does not terminate (meaning we do not want it to terminate). &nbsp;However when the user that starts the process logs out, the process is killed by Windows. &nbsp;<br />
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I would like the process to start at boot time, and never terminate, until shutdown.<br />
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I konw about<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;Local Computer Policy &gt;User Configuration &gt;Windows Settings &gt;Scripts<br />
in the Group Policies, but when I tried that my terminal services remote desktop did not come up for about 20 minutes, after which my process was not running.<br />
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I should mention that right now I need this for a Window 2003 server, however I &nbsp;also need it to work on a Window 2000 server.<br />
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Thanks in advance for your help.<br />
&nbsp; Paul<br />

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I have a program that we have been running from the cmd prompt.  It is a daemon process, that does not terminate (meaning we do not want it to terminate).  However when the user that starts the process logs out, the process is killed by Windows.  

I would like the process to start at boot time, and never terminate, until shutdown.

I konw about
   Local Computer Policy >User Configuration >Windows Settings >Scripts
in the Group Policies, but when I tried that my terminal services remote desktop did not come up for about 20 minutes, after which my process was not running.

I should mention that right now I need this for a Window 2003 server, however I  also need it to work on a Window 2000 server.

Thanks in advance for your help.
  Paul


how can I start a daemon process at boot time? (it's not a service)

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