silvergs

Thanks for the link jaclaz. This program however is not meant to be run as a service unfortunately. The program can be run as a service when it is run in a normal mode. However in high performance mode, it does not run as a service.

Anybody?

The program has to be run in a command window - it is a console program. It is not a GUI based program. It won't run from anywhere. Please help me make this seemingly very simple task work. Thanks!

Thanks for the reply FthrJack! I am a tad confused by your reply, so let me rephrase more clearly what I am attempting to do and then perhaps it will make more sense. I run a program called Folding@Home and the version I am running cannot run as a service (not yet anyway). This simply means that whenever the pc is restarted for whatever reason, I have to launch that program manually. Here is what I have to do to launch it manually: I click Start, right-click on the Command Window program, choose run as administrator When the command window opens, I type in cd.. and hit enter and then do that one more time to go the root of the C drive I then cd to FAH I finally type in the name of the executable file - "fah -smp" where -smp is a flag to run the program in high performance mode. Which now explains why I need to run some command in the Startup group that opens a command window (running it as the admin) and then goes to the folding@home directory and calls the executable. Just so that if the pc restarts for whatever reason, I don't have to do run my program manually. Your explanation seems to answer part of my needs but not 100% . Does that make sense?

I need to have a command in the Startup group on my Windows Vista 64 bit machine so that it launches a command window running as the administrator and calls a simple batch file to run a program. Can someone please tell me how to do this? TIA!