Windows Server R2 Task Scheduler - Open Programs On Startup

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Published on 2012-12-07T13:29:37Z Indexed on 2012/12/08 17:06 UTC
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I want Fiddler and some other programs to run on startup, so it's there and running every time I bring up an instance of my test server on EC2. There's a few questions about running scripts on Startup with Task Scheduler, but this needs to work slightly differently.

I have set this up to run on startup but when I RDP into the server I can see Fiddler is running in Task Manager (so I can't manually run a second instance of the program), but it's not viewable on the task bar? So I can't actually see the interface?

Here's my setup:

General Tab

Running with highest privileges
Run whether user is logged on or not
Configure for Windows 2008 server R2

Triggers Tab

At startup

Others are obvious and defaults..

What am I doing wrong?

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