On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:01:06 -0500, Randy Manning <[email protected]> wrote:
>TechRepublic has a guide on how to work around this problem using the Task >Scheduler on Vista and 7. >http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=616 Yeah, a scheduled task does not work as long as PowerPro is set as admin. If you uncheck that admin, PowerPro complains that it isn't admin when you run it - but the task does then launch. So, I left PowerPro as non-admin, disabled the startup task and just left it in the startup folder. It works as a program launcher (which is all I want), but none of the other features work under Win 7 (save desktop icons, any of the key/mouse tab etc). Bruce is not updating the program anymore, so it isn't going to become Vista/Win 7 compliant - but that's all right, I'll just use it as a start menu replacement. I did notice one bug though - if you want to crash your system, tick the 'run as normal user' box in PowerPro for a program that launches a UAC prompt on startup. Then launch that same program. Watch in task manager as PowerPro continues to try and launch instance after instance of that program. I watched the other night as my task manager filled up with about 100 instances of CCleaner until I hit the power switch (none of them can be killed by task manager either). -- Regards, GG
