Starting a Windows service in an interactive session

Question

A colleague has a batch script program which needs to to run on a Windows Server in console mode, so that it has access to a Windows interactive session. The server is reboo

Answer 1

In case "Interact with desktop" on the service is not enough (I have seen a handful of cases where it is not), you can combine it with AutoAdminLogon. Create three (or four for a domain) REG_SZ values under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon:

• DefaultUsername
• DefaultPassword
• DefaultDomain
• AutoAdminLogon

AutoAdminLogon should be set to the string "1", the others are self-explanatory.

Obviously this has security issues big enough to fly Jupiter through.