Schedule Task run Without Being Logged in

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Published on 2010-03-02T21:07:03Z Indexed on 2011/11/16 1:55 UTC
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I have seen similar threads here and on the net, but I think my question is slightly different than what I can find...

I have a script that runs perfectly when logged in with a service account I created specifically to run this script. But when I schedule it to run it hangs when trying to launch IE (the first part of my script). Without being logged in with that account I can watch the processes with task manager and see the processes running, but the script never finishes.

I want to be able to run this script without needing to be logged in at all or even have the account be locked all the times. Is this possible? Or do I have to have the user account logged in?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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