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How can I schedule a startup task that requires admin privileges?
This is something that has bugged me since installing Windows 7 Ultimate with separate admin and user accounts.
As often recommended for security, I normally log on as a standard user. If I truly want to make a system change, update a program, etc., I am happy to get a prompt for an admin password.
Where it first became annoying was with TrueCrypt. I wanted it to run at startup so I could (or not) enter a password to mount my favorite volumes. Windows 7 required me to enter an admin password first, just to start up the TrueCrypt program. I futzed and futzed, posted questions online, and one day TC started running as I'd hope. I no longer needed to enter an admin password. Unfortunately, I had tried so many different approaches that I have no idea which one solved the problem.
Now I have the same problem with a VPN loader program. I want this to run at startup or logon, before my email and browsers in my Startup group load. I can't even get it to start enough to ask for an admin pw before running unless I do it manually after logon. Then I get that prompt for an admin pw before the VPN program will run.
I have "start at logon" checked within the program. I tried putting the program into my Startup group. I tried logging on as an admin and using Scheduler to start it at any logon. Nothing has gotten me out of the admin pw prompt. The publisher says it knows of no workaround.
Anyone know how to do this? The program is PIA_manager from Private Internet Access, but I think the issue is more generalized than just this program.