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I'm posting here to make note of the fact that this Tutorial solved my problem. Initially, I was trying to follow the instructions in this other Tutorial:
Elevated Program Shortcut without UAC Prompt - Create
On my own, before Brink/Shawn pointed me to this Tutorial, I had created an entry in Task Scheduler directly in the Task Scheduler Library. With that entry, at one point I actually had a taskmgr.exe running, but no Task Manager window was open. I discovered that by manually opening the Task Manager window & it showed 2 instantiations of taskmgr.exe, one under user SYSTEM launched via Task Scheduler, and the other under my user ID launched manually by me to look at what was going on. Which was actually kind of funny . . .
The solution ended up being this Tutorial. By adding one level of indirection, my problem was solved. I created a folder within the Task Scheduler Library and placed the exact same auto-start item within this lower-level folder, and everything started working. I have made a mental note that if I ever add something new that I want automatically started at bootup or logon, I will put it in my lower-level folder and not in the higher-level Task Scheduler Library. That will be for both elevated & non-elevated tasks.
Aside from the fact that this works, I like the aesthetics of organizing my stuff into my folder. There's a number of products installed on my system that put their own entries in the high-level library so I don't know why a plebe like me couldn't do the same. But I couldn't & this was the solution so I'm not looking any further for answers.