[Suggestion] Change autostart from regkey to taskschd

[pointydev]

Heya,

Just a lil suggestion, how about instead of making a registry key in order to autostart, you create a task in Task Scheduler, that way if the "Elevate on autostart" option is selected, there is no UAC prompt when the task is run (provided the task is set to run in "Hidden" mode with highest privileges). Possibly add user account name to the task name to handle multiple users?

Here's an example of the task:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Task version="1.4" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/task">
  <RegistrationInfo>
    <Date>2017-12-29T11:13:21.5989706</Date>
    <Author>POINTYPC\Pointy</Author>
    <URI>\SuperF4 Startup</URI>
  </RegistrationInfo>
  <Triggers>
    <LogonTrigger>
      <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    </LogonTrigger>
  </Triggers>
  <Principals>
    <Principal id="Author">
      <UserId>S-1-5-21-381785761-2547864021-1518221547-1001</UserId>
      <LogonType>InteractiveToken</LogonType>
      <RunLevel>HighestAvailable</RunLevel>
    </Principal>
  </Principals>
  <Settings>
    <MultipleInstancesPolicy>IgnoreNew</MultipleInstancesPolicy>
    <DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>false</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>
    <StopIfGoingOnBatteries>false</StopIfGoingOnBatteries>
    <AllowHardTerminate>false</AllowHardTerminate>
    <StartWhenAvailable>true</StartWhenAvailable>
    <RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>false</RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>
    <IdleSettings>
      <StopOnIdleEnd>true</StopOnIdleEnd>
      <RestartOnIdle>false</RestartOnIdle>
    </IdleSettings>
    <AllowStartOnDemand>true</AllowStartOnDemand>
    <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    <Hidden>true</Hidden>
    <RunOnlyIfIdle>false</RunOnlyIfIdle>
    <DisallowStartOnRemoteAppSession>false</DisallowStartOnRemoteAppSession>
    <UseUnifiedSchedulingEngine>true</UseUnifiedSchedulingEngine>
    <WakeToRun>false</WakeToRun>
    <ExecutionTimeLimit>PT0S</ExecutionTimeLimit>
    <Priority>7</Priority>
    <RestartOnFailure>
      <Interval>PT1M</Interval>
      <Count>10</Count>
    </RestartOnFailure>
  </Settings>
  <Actions Context="Author">
    <Exec>
      <Command>"C:\Users\Pointy\AppData\Roaming\SuperF4\SuperF4.exe"</Command>
    </Exec>
  </Actions>
</Task>

Thanks,
Elliott

[stefansundin]

Hi Elliott,

Thanks for the suggestion. I did consider using this before, but it didn't work as reliably as the current method. So I decided not to use it in the app, but feel free to use it if it works well for you.

I did not know that you could export the task to an xml file. That might make it easier to make a Howto or similar to set this up. Could be nice to put in the docs.

Anyhow, that is how I reasoned back then. Maybe it would work better now in Windows 10.