Andrey Repin wrote > Greetings, carl! > >> Hi, >> im working with windows 7 and have the same problem if i want to run a >> windows application from cron. >> the problem for me: if i active "Allow service to interact with desktop" >> i >> had to switch to local user and then the cron service doesn't work >> anymore. > >> is there a solution for this problem menawhile? > > No. Windows Vista and up use a separate desktop (session 0) to run > services. > Users simply not see the launched application, unless a big amount of > Voodoo > is applied. > Simple answer is - don't do that. > > > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin (
> anrdaemon@ > ) 08.02.2014, <23:13> > > Sorry for my terrible english... Hi Andrey, thank you for your answer! I feared it :( What possibilities remain to me with a win7 system? The background for my problem is a windows application that sometimes crashes silently (it is still open but doesn't do what it should) and had to be restarted. A big amount of Voodoo sounds interesting ;-) but perhabs I should simply use windows scheduled tasks? -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Launch-a-windows-application-from-crontab-tp37762p106171.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
