Auto Launch ASP after Win10 logon

[engRMP]

Hi folks,

I'm more of a Mac guy than Windows so please bear with me...

I'm running ASP on Win10 on a Dell 7090 mini computer. I have a single Amcrest camera and feed it thru a dedicated router and then ethernet cable to this dedicated Dell Win10 computer.

I'm not able to get ASP to launch automatically after logon to Win10... has anyone gotten this to work? Here's what I've tried:
- shell:common start. I put the shortcut to the exe in this folder. No joy... nothing... no visible sign that it launched
- edit group policy: launch app on logon. No joy here either:
- if I point this to something like WordPad, it works (WordPad launches after win10 logon)
- but, if I point to ASP exe, no joy... no visible sign that it launched.
- I then tried disabling any malware checking.... still no joy (but I wonder if I've really disabled malware checking)

Any ideas on how to get this to work, or what else to try?

[Pogo]

Try shell:startup for the shortcut location from a run prompt.

Just saw this elsewhere for Blue Iris and it seemed to work.

[Revo2Maxx]

Just an idea,

Windows Key, R, Then type in shell: startup without the space,, then a window should come up. Then using the Windows Explore open another window, go to your ASP folder and make a short cut to the app, then right click it and drag it over to the other shell window, then close out the windows and reboot the computer. This should then start your ASP. Would need to make sure that Auto Login and remember password is enabled.

That is how it works for me on both 10 and win11..

[tuaris]

Adding to the startup menu doesn't work. I don't understand why. Regardless, the way it works for me is to create a scheduled task that starts it on user login. Here's the XML for it:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Task version="1.2" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/task">
  <RegistrationInfo>
    <Date>2024-11-25T11:19:03.9634476</Date>
    <Author>[REPLACE WITH YOUR COMPUTER NAME]\[REPLACE WITH YOUR USER]</Author>
    <Description>Starts Amcrest Surveillance Pro at Login</Description>
    <URI>\Amcrest Surveillance Pro</URI>
  </RegistrationInfo>
  <Triggers>
    <LogonTrigger>
      <Enabled>true</Enabled>
      <UserId>[REPLACE WITH YOUR COMPUTER NAME]\[REPLACE WITH YOUR USER]</UserId>
    </LogonTrigger>
  </Triggers>
  <Principals>
    <Principal id="Author">
      <UserId>[REPLACE WITH YOUR USER GUIDD]</UserId>
      <LogonType>InteractiveToken</LogonType>
      <RunLevel>HighestAvailable</RunLevel>
    </Principal>
  </Principals>
  <Settings>
    <MultipleInstancesPolicy>IgnoreNew</MultipleInstancesPolicy>
    <DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>true</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>
    <StopIfGoingOnBatteries>true</StopIfGoingOnBatteries>
    <AllowHardTerminate>true</AllowHardTerminate>
    <StartWhenAvailable>false</StartWhenAvailable>
    <RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>false</RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>
    <IdleSettings>
      <StopOnIdleEnd>true</StopOnIdleEnd>
      <RestartOnIdle>false</RestartOnIdle>
    </IdleSettings>
    <AllowStartOnDemand>true</AllowStartOnDemand>
    <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    <Hidden>false</Hidden>
    <RunOnlyIfIdle>false</RunOnlyIfIdle>
    <WakeToRun>false</WakeToRun>
    <ExecutionTimeLimit>PT72H</ExecutionTimeLimit>
    <Priority>7</Priority>
  </Settings>
  <Actions Context="Author">
    <Exec>
      <Command>"C:\Program Files\Amcrest Surveillance Pro\Amcrest Surveillance Pro\Amcrest Surveillance Pro.exe"</Command>
    </Exec>
  </Actions>
</Task>

Now if there was a way to have it start in full screen mode, I'd be happy.