startup issue

Hi All,

Windows 10-1809 home

I copied a short cut into startup. If I click on it, it
won't run. No error message. Just nothing.

It runs from the command line (std user) just
fine. And I can run it from startup if I elevate to Administrator.

What the heck????

-T

p.s. I wish folks would stop buying the home edition!

T wrote:

Windows 10-1809 home

I copied a short cut into startup. If I click on it, it
won't run. No error message. Just nothing.

It runs from the command line (std user) just
fine. And I can run it from startup if I elevate to Administrator.

So why not right-click on the shortcut, select Properties from the
context menu, Shortcut tab, Advanced button, and enable the shortcut to
run with administrator privilege tokens? You will get a UAC prompt if
that is enabled because, after all, you are trying to run a program with
admin privs, just like if you ran regedit.exe.

Sounds like your "command line" (aka command prompt aka command shell),
well, the shortcut to it or you selecting it from the searchbox which
picked the admin tokens, is loading with admin privs, so anything you
load within it will inherit the same privilege tokens.

Since the program loads okay when loaded inside a command shell that
have been given admin tokens, that should've clued you in that the
program requires admin tokens and you needed to define the shortcut to
also require admin tokens.

Since this is a startup item (to load soon after Windows starts), why
not add a scheduled event in Task Scheduler. You can run programs on
startup and with admin privs with no UAC prompt. A disadvantage in
loading programs using Task Scheduler, is that you don't have an option
to load the program with its window minimized, and not all programs load
minimized (to a tray icon). Shortcuts lets you specify the behavior of
the program's window (normal, minimized, maximized). The trick is to
then create a shortcut to the program, put the .lnk file somewhere it
won't get accidentally deleted, and specify the .lnk file as the command
of what to load in the scheduled event in Task Scheduler.

p.s. I wish folks would stop buying the home edition!

Not everyone is an admin (despite many users think so because, gee, they
can fobble with the OS) and figure they don't need to pay another $100
for features they don't expect to use, don't think they will need, and
probably won't know how to use.

For company use, yes, they should be buying the Pro edition; however,
many SOHOs are pretty small, like just 1 or 2 people, and startup costs
are personal costs. If they had the expertise, they'd probably
determine which OS they need last: first determine which programs they
need for their business and then decide on which OS they run. They
might end up saving a bundle without the privacy invasion of buying
Windows 10 buy going with Mint or some other user-friendly Linux distro.
Alas, those aren't the users that would be paying you to support their
computing setup. They want to play games, too, and that kills Linux as
a candidate OS. They use their company computer as a personal computer.

T wrote:

Windows 10-1809 home

I copied a short cut into startup.Â* If I click on it, it
won't run.Â* No error message.Â* Just nothing.

It runs from the command line (std user) just
fine.Â* And I can run it from startup if I elevate to Administrator.

What the heck????

Had a similar issue recently on win8.1 Industry Pro, where syswow64 was
involved due to a 32 bit app trying to run from a shortcut ...